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“I mean it, Nick,” she was saying sharply. “You guys say or do anything to set back any of my patients’ progress, I’ll have your balls for breakfast. All of you.”
Well, her appearance was softer—her attitude, not so much.
Nick grinned, unruffled. “My balls are spoken for, Doc. So are theirs.”
“Then you’d best not endanger them, or your mates will be awfully lonely in the days to come.” With that, she gathered a chart and marched off.
Jax stare after her. “That is the most miserable woman I’ve ever known.”
“She’s a tough cookie,” Micah agreed.
“Girlfriend just needs to get laid,” Noah piped up from the nurses’ station. At Nick’s arched brow, he flushed. “Anyhoo, gotta run.”
Micah chuck
led as the guy hurried off. “Nix is gonna have his hands full with that one.”
“And then some.” Jax snorted. “Once he finally pulls his head out of his ass.”
“All right, let’s get this done,” Nick said, shaking his head.
The first patient, a cougar shifter named Boris, was hostile. He was not one of the captives Micah had been forced to torture, but he had suffered terribly, and he wanted no part of them or their questioning. Only when Nick told him about the two murders of innocent people did he relent. Softening the slightest bit, Boris told them everything he recalled about the shifters with whom he had been locked up.
There really wasn’t anything they didn’t already know. The names Boris gave them were on their lists, no surprises. They left the interview disappointed.
The next two shifters were wolves, and they were shy. Afraid. The trauma they’d been through had rendered them nearly incapable of speaking, and any apology for Micah’s part in their misery were neither wanted nor appreciated. At least for the time being. One actually started screaming when he saw Micah and had to be sedated by Noah. They left quickly, before Melina could get word and kick them out, and went on to the fourth survivor.
“This one’s name is Tyler Anderson,” Jax read from the paper. “Eagle shifter.”
“One of mine, too.” Micah felt sick. “He was one of the most vulnerable, and Bowman knew it. The bastard brought him to me many times. Him and his brother.”
“His brother?” Nick’s gaze bored into him.
“Yeah, Parker. He’s on the names of the deceased. I don’t know how he died, though. Bowman stopped bringing him around, and I never knew what happened to him.”
Nick seemed to consider that for a moment, then nodded. “All right. Let’s see if we can get a read on this one.”
Just then, Micah’s cell phone buzzed in his pocket. He couldn’t answer it right then and made a mental note to check it after they were done visiting Tyler.
When they walked in, the young, slight, brown-haired man on the bed was drowsing. The second he noticed them, however, he jolted awake, eyes widening in fear. Especially when he spotted Micah.
“You,” he whispered. His face turned paper white, and his green eyes were luminous. “Why are you here?”
Micah took a deep breath. “First, I want to say how sorry I am for what happened in that hellhole we were held captive in. For the terrible things I was forced to do. And I was forced, Tyler.”
The other man’s voice was almost inaudible. “I know.”
“I hated every second of that place, and I loathed Gene Bowman. As a member of the Alpha Pack, my job is to protect people, not hurt them.”
“I believe you.”
Tyler was taking this better than Micah had hoped. “Perhaps someday you can forgive me. I know it’s a lot to ask, but—”
“Of course. We were both victims, Micah.” Tyler’s eyes were sad as he studied him. “I don’t blame you.”
“Thanks. That’s more than I deserve.”
The eagle glanced at Jax and Nick. “Somehow I don’t think it takes three of you to come tell me you’re sorry. What’s the rest of this visit about?”
