Primals (Reverse Harem 1)

“We need to talk,” Sebastian says from the other side.

For a moment, I hesitate, not sure if I want to see him or if I can keep myself from punching him right in the face. This was all his stupid fucking idea, after all. Then again, he’s right. We do need to talk. Whatever horror Clarissa just walked out of, I want a full report.

I need to know.

I get out of the chair and open the door, letting him and Toshi in.

“How is she?” Toshi asks, hands on the moist towel draped around his neck.

“Sleeping,” I answer, closing the door. “And I won’t be surprised if she never wants to wake.”

Sebastian’s jaw clenches.

I grab his arm. “What happened back there?”

I was half expecting him to punch me for touching him or at least, throw me one of his death glares. I was prepared to punch him back. Instead, he simply shrugs off my hand and gestures to the door leading to the adjoining room.

If even Sebastian’s changed, then this thing is a whole lot worse.

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I follow him to the next room, Toshi behind me. As he closes the door, leaving it slightly open, I lean on the edge of the desk, my hands over my chest.

“Talk,” I tell Sebastian.

“Just a sec.”

He nods at Toshi and Toshi takes his phone out, making a call. After a few seconds, someone answers.

“Hello.”

It’s Theo.

“Hey,” Toshi greets him. “I’ll put you on speaker now but just listen, okay?”

“Okay.”

He places the phone down on the desk, pulls the chair closer to the door and sits on it.

I turn my gaze back to Sebastian, who hands me a folder.

Project Eden?

“We came here to Africa to find out who...or what Clarissa Wagner is,” Sebastian starts talking as I go through the files in the folder. “Now, we know.”

He takes a deep breath. “When we were at the facility, we were attacked by Cats. One of them tried to escape. Toshi ran after him and questioned him. He said...”

“Something about Project Eden,” Toshi continues, picking up the story. “He said it was a project in operation decades ago to find a cure for the dwindling primal population. As we well know – well, with the exception of Kyle here – females in most races have become rarer over the centuries and now, only few remain, endangering our existence.”

“We still have sufficient females,” Theo says, his voice gravelly, almost lost over the faint connection.

“I said most races,” Toshi clarifies.

“But I am aware of the situation,” Theo adds.

I look up from the folder. “And primals and humans can’t...”

“A primal cannot mate with a human,” Sebastian explains. “No offspring would come of such a union. All primals know this and it seems that Project Eden was undertaken to remedy this exactly. The project involved developing a serum that could make human females compatible with primals.”