Megans Mark (Breeds 6)

"Ask Braden," she snorted. "He's the one that bit me. "

She was no one's lab experiment and she wasn't going to start now. Maybe later, she amended.

"If Jonas had learned anything from him he would have let me know. " Morrey shrugged her shoulders gracefully.

"I'll get the samples I need from Braden before I leave, but still, this isn't enough. I need you back at the labs. "

Yeah, Megan bet she did. She eyed the other woman carefully, uncomfortable with the emotionless core she could sense in the doctor.

"This has to finish here. " She finally sighed wearily. "Hiding won't help, no matter the excuse we use. And I'm tired of hiding. When it's finished, maybe I'll visit for a while. "

Dr. Morrey stared back at her serenely. "You could die here, and we'll never learn what caused the anomalies you're showing. Just the initial exam is showing several differences between you and the other mates at Sanctuary.

Braden's hormones are reacting in a different manner than those of the other Breeds. I need to study this. "

"You have blood, skin, vaginal, saliva and a multitude of other samples to go on. " Megan crossed her arms over her breasts as she stared back at the doctor. "It will have to be enough. "

A reluctant smile tipped the doctor's thin lips. "You don't have much give in you, do you, Miss Fields?

she pointed out.

"Sometimes too much," Megan admitted wryly. "And you're avoiding telling me what this biting stuff is all about. What the hell is going on'?"

Dr. Morrey pursed her lips tightly for a moment.

"The hormone we carry during Mating Heat has some peculiar

properties," she admitted. "Over time, and the time varies from Mating to Mating, it begins to affect the non-Breed mate on the genetic level. The bite today" She shrugged as she waved her hand in confusion.

"That has never happened before. But I've noticed with the other females that their healing rates increase after Mating, as do their immunity levels. I suspect it was an instinctive action that resulted from the extremity of the situation. I'll know more after I study the levels of the hormone in Braden's saliva and semen. "

Megan's eyes widened as she swallowed tightly. "It's in the semen too?" A vision of her on her knees, Braden's cock spurting heavily into her mouth, flashed before her eyes.

"The hormone levels are actually much higher there. "

The doctor nodded as she closed up the case that held the samples and began gathering her tools of torture together.

"Especially in the barb. The hormone potency there is amazingly high from the few samples we've managed to acquire. " The short, mocking laughter the doctor gave as she leveled a look at her was faintly bitter.

"It's almost impossible to get samples from the barb. We got lucky with Merinus, once. The hormone travels so quickly into the womb that it's almost impossible to get a sample. For some reason, the barb only emerges vaginally. " She shrugged philosophically. "Such is a doctor's

quest, I guess. "

Megan kept her mouth shut. No way in hell was she going to reveal the oral injection she received. With her luck, she'd be jerked into Sanctuary so damned fast it would make hers and Braden's heads spin. She wanted nothing to do with Sanctuary right now, despite the edge of guilt that filled her. The Breeds deserved their freedom, and they deserved to know what nature was doing to them. But she knew that the danger surrounding her would only intensify if it wasn't dealt with now.

She cleared her throat carefully. "Well, maybe you'll get lucky one of these days. "

"We could only hope. " The doctor snorted. "Until then, we do our best with what we have. One day, we'll figure it all out. "

Megan nodded with what she considered impressive seriousness. She could feel the betraying blush threatening to rise beneath her skin, and she knew the doctor, being a damned Breed, would have no trouble whatsoever…

"It would really help, my dear, if you would at least give me the information I need. " The doctor, Elyiana, slanted her look from the comer of her eyes as she leaned over the case and fidgeted with the lock. "I know how to keep my mouth shut in the interests of science, you know. "

Shit.

Megan opened her eyes wide.

"I've told you everything I know," she promised as she fought any betraying evidence of a lie.