Page 15 of Shifter Marked and Claimed

I had jumped out of my chair at some point in the rant and began pacing again.

He sighed. “Take a seat, Micah. If it were anyone else, I’d be telling you to just go and talk to her. And if you were anyone else, I’d certainly not be sharing this.”

Curiosity had me taking a seat.

“I’m not speaking to you as her potential mate right now. I’m talking to you as their doctor and what I’m going to tell you absolutely falls under patient-doctor confidentiality. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir,” I said.

“And can you do that, Micah? Can you separate your personal feelings from your professional ones right now?”

“I don’t know,” I said honestly. “But I damn well do know I’m not leaving this room until you tell me.”

He nodded slowly. “Lucy doesn’t have a mate. She is one of the Raglan victims from the big rescue.” He paused letting that sink in as a growl escaped me.

“Sorry. I’m okay, continue, please.”

“Her daughter is literally named after Silas’s Vada who delivered her into this world.”

“How long was Lucy in captivity?” I asked.

“Five years I believe she said.”

“So Vada was conceived in captivity then?” I asked.

“Micah, Vada wascreatedin captivity.”

He let that sink in for a minute, being well aware of the experiments that had been run on shifters while with the Raglan. I had poured over the data and details in preparation to receive over two hundred of them here. I knew most of their cases. How had Lucy and Vada escaped me?

“I can see the confusion on your face. You’re mentally going through all of their files, aren’t you?”

I shrugged and we both knew he was correct.

“She just arrived.”

“How is that possible?” Now I was dying to know everything there was to know about her and the child.

“She’s a bit skittish, Micah.”

“Oh, I’ve already experienced that for myself.”

I was surprisingly calm with the news. My freak out was over. She wasn’t mated. She was mine. That’s all I could think about. She was mine.

“She originated from the New York Pack and she still has family there, so after the big rescue, she went home.”

The way his voice changed I knew what was coming next.

“They didn’t accept her back?” I guessed.

“No, they did. They just didn’t accept her kid. You have to understand, the New York Pack was very closely affected by the experiments, especially with the babies. Abominations is what they call them. From what I gather she moved home with her mother.”

“Her own mother rejected her?”

“Afraid so. She didn’t stay there long and had been moving around within the human world until Kelsey personally reached out to check on her. As you know we have a team doing that to ensure these people are integrating back into their lives without further assistance needed. For those that need the help we have an assistance fund. Anyway, when Kelsey reached out to Lucy, she sort of broke down. The two connected and Kels convinced her to move here where we assured her she could have a fresh start for the both of them.”

“As in no one knows the truth.”

“Exactly.”

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