Once Bitten (A Darker Hollow Book 2) by Shannon West & TS McKinney

Author:Shannon West & TS McKinney [West, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2017-09-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Finn

The doctor’s name was Cornsilk, and he looked a little surprised when all of us filed into the dining area, where he was working at one of the tables. Mason had told me about him after Marco suggested he take blood samples. He was what this pack called a pet—a non-shifting child of wolf parents. He didn’t live at the lodge, or at least he hadn’t the last time Mason knew of—he worked at a hospital in the nearby town of Brevard, so he wouldn’t normally have been here at Marco’s lodge at this time of morning. I wondered what was so important that he’d made a special trip up here to see Mason, and it made me uneasy.

Some of the other wolves in Marco’s pack were hanging around the dining room too, including Casey and his mate. In response to my question about him, Mason whispered to me that his name was Rory and that he was a wolf. A cute one. Two wolves were usually way too dominant to mate, and I wondered how they worked it out. Then the smaller, curly-haired Rory got up to go refill his mate’s coffee cup. He stood behind Casey’s chair when we came in and put a hand on his shoulder, and I figured it out.

“Mason,” Dr. Cornsilk said, standing up to shake his hand. “Good to see you again. And these men are…?

“My mates, Valerian and Finn,” he said, gesturing toward us.

The doctor shook hands with me and nodded to Valerian. He apparently shared some of the feelings of the rest of the pack when it came to vampires, but he looked Val over with interest. “I’d love to have a chance to examine you sometime, if you’ll allow it.”

Valerian looked at him in alarm. He actually stepped closer to me, and I think the move was unconscious. I put a protective arm around his waist. “Maybe some other time. We’re here to concentrate on Mason now.”

“Yes, yes, of course. Mason. Well, I’ve found some very interesting things. Won’t you all sit down?”

We sat down at the table, Valerian and Mason across from me and Jax next to me. Marco, who had apparently already heard all this before, at the end of the table with Nicky perched on the arm of his chair.

“As you know, Mason, I took several vials of blood and ran the tests on them. I’ve been interested in DNA studies since I was an undergrad, and as far as I’ve been able to tell, werewolves are the result of a hereditary mutation, a gene anomaly, inherited from at least one parent and present in a person’s life in virtually every cell in the body.”

“What’s an anomaly?” I asked.

“Anything that deviates from what’s expected. From the norm. When the mother’s egg and the father’s sperm cell unite, the resulting fertilized egg cell receives DNA from both parents. If this DNA has a mutation, the child that grows from the fertilized egg will have the mutation in each of his or her cells.

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