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“Avery warned him if he turned wolf, you would be tortured.”
She swallowed, at a loss of words. He tried to protect her. “Happy someone cares about me around here.”
“Avery knows all about his kind, but unfortunately, the poor beast has no memory of his identity. Only that you can’t charm him.”
Had he revealed their plans to escape? “Did he say anything else about me?”
“He says you can see his inner wolf, but when Avery started to ask him why he was so fond of you, he convulsed and passed out.”
Gaby bit the inside of her cheek. He fought the drug before he revealed their plans. His fondness.
Avery Kraig entered. “Gaby, how nice to see you again.”
Can’t say the same. “Hi.”
His smile slipped and he turned to Tomlin. “So Doc, how is the wolf doing?”
“The serum is out of his system and he’s out of danger.”
“Good. Gaby, perhaps, if he hears your voice, he’ll wake.”
She snarked. “So you can torture him with more drugs?”
“You couldn’t be further from the truth. You and he will be my guests.”
Tomlin gazed at the wolf. “I need to do my rounds, but I’ll return in a couple hours.”
“No problem. I’m on my way to make a few calls,” said Avery. He turned to Gaby. “If he wakes, have him turn human and tell the guard to call me immediately.”
He left and ordered the guard to stand outside the room. Probably to keep him from being mind controlled by Kane.
Gaby sighed and knelt next to the huge gray wolf. She glanced at the camera. Even if he shifted, better they not talk. She wanted to promise she’d never betray his kind, that is, if she could believe an entire secret society of them existed.
While he lay still as an animal rug, she avoided looking at the dark room where she’d been imprisoned. It felt like only yesterday. She found paper and pen and drew the unconscious wolf. She sketched him lying inside a den.
After a half an hour, he woke. The wolf stood and shook his fur. He walked forward and banged his head on the bars, whining. He shimmered into human form. He held his head between his hands. “My head hurts…get Tomlin.” He moaned.
She nodded and called him. “Dr. Tomlin, Kane has a headache.”
Kane groaned, “Stop the pain.”
“Hurry!” She put the phone down and looked through the cabinet for pain meds. Nothing for humans. She found a bottle of water in the refrigerator. “Drink.”
Chapter 8
Kane winced and dropped the water bottle. On seeing Gaby’s pained glare, he winked before returning to faking his pain.
She narrowed her eyes, on to his game. “Don’t worry, he’s coming.”
Tomlin rushed in. Two guards accompanied him, but they and the security man assigned to him remained outside as he shut the door. He approached the cage, but didn’t get closer than arm’s length. “Where exactly does your head hurt?”
Kane sealed his eyes shut and rasped, “Stop the pain.”
“Could be a reaction to the serum.” He looked in the cabinet. “I can give you morphine.”
“Will that work against a truth serum reaction?” asked Gaby.
“Hard to say. Avery added trace amounts of wolfsbane to the serum.”
