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monster.”
She forced her head high. “I know.”
“All right. I’ll assume then, as the saying goes, that
when you know better, you’ll do better. New subject—why
you didn’t tell me about Brian?”
She stopped all movement and with a
strawberry poised on her fork, she glared at her uncle. “Did Uncle Hugh tell
you?”
“He didn’t have to. When you didn’t
let me shoot the young wolf, your actions since Brian came to work here all
added up. Besides, your story about meeting him on his jog never held water.”
“I was afraid if I told you, you’d
fire him and he can’t help how he is any more than I can. And he hates his
curse and wants the cure.”
“You and Brian were partially
morphed. How did that happen?”
“We ate moon poppies and used a
mind-over-matter technique that Victoria uses to reverse her morphing when the full moon is still out. Then when the
cloud eclipsed the moon, the process progressed even faster, but the wolf
attack complicated the transformation and we got stuck.”
“Don’t you realize I needed this
information for our study?”
“This was the first time it worked
for me. We were still in the testing stage.” She paused to calm her pounding
heart. “Are you going to fire Brian?”
****
The next day, when Kyle told Brian
that Damon wanted to see him immediately in his office, he felt sure he’d been
found out and would be fired or worse. He hadn’t forgotten the stunned,
heart-stopping feeling of having the shotgun turned on him . He hesitated at the door, sweat trickling down his back, damping
the shirt he’d quickly shrugged into. Maybe Damon would try to capture him for
one of his ghoulish studies. Perhaps I
should just take off and live in the hills. At least I could watch out for
Valerie. And other than a cure, that’s all I want.
Now that he’d seen the killer-wolf
and learned he was a werewolf with blood in his eyes, he knew the creature was
like none he’d ever known before. He
remembered the acrid odor and the tombstone coolness the animal had emitted. He’d
read the supposed myths about the walking dead in college and felt he just met
one. What about the other wolf who seemed to be Johnny-on-the-spot when Valerie
needed him. He hadn’t had time to
question who he was, or why he acted like a protector instead of an aggressor.
Brian took a deep breath and rapped
on Damon’s office door.
“Come in,” Damon called gruffly.
He squared his shoulders and shoved
the door open with force. “You wanted to see me, Sir?”
Damon rolled his eyes upward. “Take
a seat and I told you before to forget the sir title.
“Yes, Sir…or
Damon, Sir.”
“Just plain Damon.”
Brian squared his shoulders again
and sat down. “Damon, then,” he said with all the firmness he could muster. He
hadn’t noticed the guest chair was so low before or that the boss’s chair was
so high. Had the legs of the chair been shortened for this meeting? He watched
Damon spread his files out wider, lean forward slightly, and steeple his
fingers. Oh. God, I’m in big trouble. Brian
knew from his experience as a cub member of a wolf pack that size and cool
control mattered. And with Damon, he felt like a cub again and not the holder
of the alpha status he’d earned the right to claim. The AC blowing against his
damp shirt sent a chill down Brian’s back. His nerves jumped under his flesh. “Look,
Sir, let’s not make this more difficult than it has to be.”
“I agree. Why don’t you start by
leveling with me?”
“Am I fired?”
Damon laughed bitterly. “What good
would that do? You’d only hang around out of sight, mooning over my daughter. I’ll
feel safer keeping you where I can keep an eye on you.”
“Are you going to cage me up in
your lab and do inhumane tests on me?”
“That hadn’t occurred to me, but if
you want to volunteer—”
“No, Sir. Not unless you can
guarantee it would lead to a cure for Valerie.”
“I can’t. But thinking of
She forced her head high. “I know.”
“All right. I’ll assume then, as the saying goes, that
when you know better, you’ll do better. New subject—why
you didn’t tell me about Brian?”
She stopped all movement and with a
strawberry poised on her fork, she glared at her uncle. “Did Uncle Hugh tell
you?”
“He didn’t have to. When you didn’t
let me shoot the young wolf, your actions since Brian came to work here all
added up. Besides, your story about meeting him on his jog never held water.”
“I was afraid if I told you, you’d
fire him and he can’t help how he is any more than I can. And he hates his
curse and wants the cure.”
“You and Brian were partially
morphed. How did that happen?”
“We ate moon poppies and used a
mind-over-matter technique that Victoria uses to reverse her morphing when the full moon is still out. Then when the
cloud eclipsed the moon, the process progressed even faster, but the wolf
attack complicated the transformation and we got stuck.”
“Don’t you realize I needed this
information for our study?”
“This was the first time it worked
for me. We were still in the testing stage.” She paused to calm her pounding
heart. “Are you going to fire Brian?”
****
The next day, when Kyle told Brian
that Damon wanted to see him immediately in his office, he felt sure he’d been
found out and would be fired or worse. He hadn’t forgotten the stunned,
heart-stopping feeling of having the shotgun turned on him . He hesitated at the door, sweat trickling down his back, damping
the shirt he’d quickly shrugged into. Maybe Damon would try to capture him for
one of his ghoulish studies. Perhaps I
should just take off and live in the hills. At least I could watch out for
Valerie. And other than a cure, that’s all I want.
Now that he’d seen the killer-wolf
and learned he was a werewolf with blood in his eyes, he knew the creature was
like none he’d ever known before. He
remembered the acrid odor and the tombstone coolness the animal had emitted. He’d
read the supposed myths about the walking dead in college and felt he just met
one. What about the other wolf who seemed to be Johnny-on-the-spot when Valerie
needed him. He hadn’t had time to
question who he was, or why he acted like a protector instead of an aggressor.
Brian took a deep breath and rapped
on Damon’s office door.
“Come in,” Damon called gruffly.
He squared his shoulders and shoved
the door open with force. “You wanted to see me, Sir?”
Damon rolled his eyes upward. “Take
a seat and I told you before to forget the sir title.
“Yes, Sir…or
Damon, Sir.”
“Just plain Damon.”
Brian squared his shoulders again
and sat down. “Damon, then,” he said with all the firmness he could muster. He
hadn’t noticed the guest chair was so low before or that the boss’s chair was
so high. Had the legs of the chair been shortened for this meeting? He watched
Damon spread his files out wider, lean forward slightly, and steeple his
fingers. Oh. God, I’m in big trouble. Brian
knew from his experience as a cub member of a wolf pack that size and cool
control mattered. And with Damon, he felt like a cub again and not the holder
of the alpha status he’d earned the right to claim. The AC blowing against his
damp shirt sent a chill down Brian’s back. His nerves jumped under his flesh. “Look,
Sir, let’s not make this more difficult than it has to be.”
“I agree. Why don’t you start by
leveling with me?”
“Am I fired?”
Damon laughed bitterly. “What good
would that do? You’d only hang around out of sight, mooning over my daughter. I’ll
feel safer keeping you where I can keep an eye on you.”
“Are you going to cage me up in
your lab and do inhumane tests on me?”
“That hadn’t occurred to me, but if
you want to volunteer—”
“No, Sir. Not unless you can
guarantee it would lead to a cure for Valerie.”
“I can’t. But thinking of
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