Reckoning: An MC Shifter Romance by Aja Foxx

Author:Aja Foxx [Foxx, Aja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-25T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

~ Henry ~

I could feel a gamut of perplexing emotions flowing through me as I stared around all the men sitting in Butch's office. I knew they had something to talk to me about, but my only concern was my brother.

"Are you going to give blood sample?"

"No," Butch replied.

Everything in me welled up in protest. My breath came raggedly in impotent anger. "Then what in the hell are we doing here? Why drag Harry out of his bed just so he can die?"

There wasn't a trace of anger in Butch's voice when he replied, "He's not going to die."

"Not die?" I sputtered, bristling with anger. "Do you actually know anything about leukemia?"

"Harry doesn't have leukemia, Henry."

"Doesn't have..." I choked on my own words. "Are you insane or just stupid?"

I was leaning toward both.

"Do you have a medical degree?"

"No, I do not." Butch's voice was cold when he replied. "I have something better."

"Better than a medical degree?" I countered icily. "Let me guess. You discovered Harry's cure at the bottom of your beer glass?"

I was so furious, I could hardly speak. I knew bringing Harry here was a bad idea. I'd been against it from the very beginning. I knew from the moment I'd seen Harry sitting on the side of his bed that he was signing his death warrant, and I'd been stupid enough to go along with it.

I was such an idiot.

I'd held onto a small hope that Butch had found some way to save my twin brother. I was at my wit's end when it came to modern medicine. In all the years I'd researched his disease, there had been no cure. There hadn't even been a hint of a cure. Butch had given me a glimmer of hope, and now it was all gone.

I felt like crying.

"I can't believe I allowed myself to be convinced you could save my brother," I whispered.

"I can save Harry," Butch said with such conviction, for a moment I almost believed him. Then the reality of the situation hit me and I knew Butch might believe he could save Harry, but he couldn't.

"How?" I asked simply because I wanted to know what kind of story he was going to feed me. "How are you going to save my brother?"

"Remember when you said you'd seen too much to ever dismiss anything?"

My brow flickered with confusion. "Yes."

"I need you to remember that." Butch tossed back the remains of his whiskey then set his glass down on the desk. "What I'm about to tell you cannot leave this room under any circumstances. People's very lives are at stake here, Henry. Understand?"

I swallowed tightly as I nodded. "It isn't anything illegal, is it?"

I wanted to know, but there were lines I would not cross.

"No," Butch said firmly. "It's nothing illegal, but it may test your belief in modern medicine. That's why I need your promise that what is said here is never repeated anywhere else."

I glanced at Gunner.

Gunner smiled as he reached over and took my hand.

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