Puma Pride by Eileen Troemel

Author:Eileen Troemel [Troemel, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-07T23:00:00+00:00

His heart beat faster, Brady woke to find his bed empty. He growled and rose. They worked on the hidden folder but left it. Jolyn needed comfort and tenderness when they returned to their rooms. He knew she’d been upset but now she wasn’t in their rooms. He grabbed sleep pants and a robe. In his bare feet, he followed her scent. He didn’t need lights. Stopping for a moment, he took a deep breath and sensed her feelings.

He hurried along until he realized he was headed towards the office. Rushing down the hall, he pushed the door open to find her sitting with the computer in front of her and her head on her arms as she wept.

“Jo,” he breathed her name. Tears he could handle. He hoped.

She shook her head. “My whole life is a lie.”

Glancing at the screen he saw files open and the hidden folder open. “What did you discover?”

“My parents were never happily married. They weren’t even married.” She waved at the screen. Flipping through the files, she brought up a medical report. “They started me in a test tube and when I had the right genetic signatures, they implanted me in her.”

“Invitro is common enough among humans,” Brady tried to reassure her.

“No. They were my biological parents but they weren’t human,” Jolyn brought up other files. “He’s part hound and part human and part Amur leopard. She’s part South China Tiger, zebra, pika, and human. I had to look up the two as they are almost extinct in the wild.”

“Those are odd combinations,” Brady considered.

“Look. Look at this,” Jolyn pulled up another file. “They were made in captivity. The humans used were the carriers of the baby but they extracted the animal DNA and fucked with my grandmothers’ DNA. There are lists of failures.”

“Does it bother you, you’re a mishmash of animals and not fully human,” Brady asked as he skimmed the files. “This biology is too much for me. We may have to bring in Verity to look at it.”

“Don’t you get it?”

“Get what?”

“They took a prostitute, one who wasn’t on drugs. She was a sixteen year old girl, strapped her to a table, and experimented on her. Then they raped her to try to create a shifter with the traits they wanted.”

“Fuck,” Brady read through the synopsis in the report.

“Her offspring, as in multiple offspring, were either stillborn, deformed, or died at a young age. My mom was one of three who survived to adulthood. My dad was luckier, he was one of six.”

“Fuck they matched them genetically. How many fucking tests did they do?”

“None of the offspring could shift,” Jolyn wiped away the tears as anger replaced disbelief and hurt.

“The purposes of the study were to… fuck,” Brady closed his eyes.

“I should have mentioned the pictures,” Jolyn hiccupped and started crying again. “She wasn’t doing all of this to make the shifters better. I mean I sort of knew that when she said she… but fuck. She wanted their stories so those who owned her – her words – owned her, could improve their tests.

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