Page 53 of Doctor Wolf's Human Nurse

Sawyer’s heart thundered in his chest so hard he thought it was going to explode. The adrenaline made him feel as though he had swilled ten pots of coffee back-to-back. He didn’t know he was holding his breath when Zac opened the front door and everyone rushed inside.

He let everyone else do the fighting. Sawyer had memorized the directions to the cells where the younglings were being kept. It didn’t take him long to dispatch with the single guard watching the cells. The younglings woke up immediately.

Sawyer shifted into human form. “Where are the keys?”

“On the wall over there,” one of them said.

He quickly grabbed the keys and unlocked the cells. “Are you guys hurt?”

One of the older kids, a wolf shifter who belonged to Sawyer’s pack, spoke up. “They just took a lot of our blood. They fed us and gave us water. Everyone pretty much ignored us unless they wanted blood.”

“Can you shift?”

They all nodded and shifted except for one little girl. She was probably only about six.

He was relieved that they all seemed to be okay, but was angered by the conditions they were kept in.

Sawyer picked up the girl and held her. “You’re safe now, but we have to get you out of here. You don’t have to shift if you don’t want to. I’ll shift and you can ride on my back, okay?”

She nodded slowly. Sawyer put her down and shifted. She got on his back and they all made their way cautiously downstairs.

The rest of the team had rounded up everyone in the lab, including Dahlia and Roger.

Slide off, Honey,he told the little dragon shifter telepathically.

She did and he shifted. “See that dragon over there? His name is Lucious. He’s an alpha, and he’ll take care of you while I go look for something, okay?”

Lucious shifted and held his arms out to the girl, who ran into his arms.

The dragon alpha sighed sadly. “She doesn’t belong to our clan. They must have been taking shifters from other places.”

Dahlia stared at Sawyer with hate in her eyes. “You think you’ve won. We’ll get out and we’ll start again. I’ll make sure you spend the rest of your life not knowing when I’m going to strike.”

“Where’s the spray?” Sawyer asked.

“Fuck you,” Dahlia said.

“Julian, would you burn her toes, just a wee bit?” Sawyer asked.

A large dragon with silvery red scales lumbered toward Dahlia and let out a hot, misty stream of air. It was hot enough to hurt, but not enough to cause damage.

She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Sawyer defiantly.

Sawyer nodded and this time Julian added fire, singeing her toes.

Dahlia screamed and told Sawyer exactly where to find the canisters of the spray, as well as the combination to the safe they were kept in.

“I’ll be back shortly and if they aren’t there, Julian will burn more than your toes,” Sawyer promised.

He raced upstairs and came down with a large satchel full of canisters.

“These are it. Let’s get the younglings to my clinic so I can check them out.”

“We’ll take these two and the rest of their cohorts to the cells at the ceremonial hall,” Zac said.

“Even though the cells are cold and damp since they’re in a cave, it will be better accommodations than the younglings had,” Sawyer said angrily.

The wolf and dragon shifters, except Lucious, who was holding the little girl, took charge of making sure that the lab staff was safely stuffed into the cells until the right authorities could come to get them.

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