Braxton's Salvation by Stephani Hecht

Author:Stephani Hecht [Hecht, Stephani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771114301
Published: 2013-01-07T23:03:09+00:00

Chapter Six

Wright moved over so he could stand by Salvation’s bedside. He glanced down at his brother, glad to see that while he was way too pale, at least his skin had lost its blue tinge.

“Do you have any clue as to what may be wrong with him?” Wright asked the doctor.

“I think he’s suffering from epilepsy, which is usually just a human condition. In addition to that, he has a heart arrhythmia.”

“What does that mean?” Wright demanded as he wondered why the doctor didn’t just speak English.

“It means that his heart rhythm is off for some reason. While I can’t be for sure, I think he was born with it, and it’s just now becoming a problem for him.”

Wright let out a sigh as Braxton rubbed his back in a soothing manner. Which showed how good of a mate he was, since Wright could really use some comforting at the moment.

“Will you be able to help him?” Wright reached down and touched the back of Salvation’s hand, finding the flesh way too cool.

“I’ll try my best. It’s not always that easy with half-humans, though. I found that out the hard way with Braxton. Your bodies burn off medicine at a faster rate than humans, so I have to figure out a way to amp it up enough without causing an overdose. Luckily, there’s a really good chemist at the feline coalition who’s been helping us out. I’ll give him a call and see if he can come down for a while,” Scott said.

“I’ll warn you that Salvation isn’t going to like you or this infirmary. It’s nothing against you, but this will remind him too much of our former home,” Wright warned.

If what they had been kept in could even be called a home. While they had let Wright and his siblings interact, it’d only been during training sessions. Otherwise, they were alone in their rooms or in the lab, going through their sadistic forms of tests or experiments.

Even at that moment, Wright could feel himself breaking out in a sweat and trembling, just from being around so much medical equipment. All he could think of was how the researchers would cause various wounds and then force him to shift to see how they would heal. The bastards hadn’t believed in pain killers either, so Wright had felt every cut, burn, or punch. The same could be said for all his siblings, too.

“How did you get away?” Chris asked.

“They made a huge mistake,” Wright said.

“What was that?”

“They trained us too well. We were eventually able to decode the locks holding us in our rooms and sneak away. We had a three hour head-start on them before they even knew we were gone. We’ve been running from them ever since.”

“Were there any other half-shifters there?” Cassie asked.

“A lot more, and some of them aren’t so nice.”

Wright shuddered as he recalled some of the horrifying encounters he’d endured. There had also been times when the lab workers would pit the halflings against each other.

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