Page 42 of Primal Bonds 1
“That’s only because they gave you those injections and pills.”
I turned to look at him.
Injections. Pills.
“You don’t realize?” Lan asked. “Those injections and pills are to suppress our beastkin ability. We’re naturally born with really good strength and agility, and fox especially for the agility. You guys can move like water, slick and fast. I lost you a couple of times. It was damn annoying. But as a wolf, I have a great nose.” He wiggled his nose. “I know your smell.”
“It was you who was following me then?” I asked.
He chuckled. “Yep.”
He must have spotted me sometime before and decided to follow me before approaching.
Lan threaded his fingers through my hair, which drew my attention to him, and I asked, “What are you doing?”
“I’m checking to see if you still have that Medi gadget shit they placed on us,” he said.
“Medi gadget?” I asked.
“Yeah,” Lan said. “I only found out when I met the other wolfkin in the black department, at the mine. The guys there told me they inserted a Medi gadget behind our ears to release this suppressor once every month so even if we managed to escape, we won’t be fully ourselves, if you know what I mean.”
I widened my eyes and asked, “If I have one, then how do I take it out?”
Lan said, “By surgery. You’ll have to get a surgeon to get it out for you.”
The only person who I could think of for that job would be Chase.
I asked, “You know about that clinic with the red cross?”
Lan nodded, still feeling around the back of my head. He said, “I can’t feel anything. Probably have to do an X-ray or something. Anyways, what about that red cross clinic?”
“Have you been there before?” I asked.
“Mm-hmm.” Lan nodded, taking a bite of his burger.
“The guy who works there, Dr. Chase, maybe he can check to see if I have the Medi gadget. He did an X-ray of me yesterday.”
“Did he do the head though?” Lan asked.
I thought for a bit. “I can’t remember. I got too tense and kind of blanked out.”
Lan burst out laughing. “You always get tense so easily.”
“Yeah,” I said. “Adam mentioned that, too.”
“Oh…” Lan expressed and continued eating.
Why wasn’t Lan asking who Adam was?
Because I didn’t want to leave him out of the loop, I said, “Adam is the guy who helped me and took me in.”
“Oh…” Lan expressed again, taking another bite of his burger.
“Anyway,” I said. “He’s really nice, but I don’t want to burden him so I’m thinking I’ll leave tomorrow.”
Once again, the thought of leaving Adam made my heart ache in that emotional way, but there was no way I could stay and burden the man further. It’d be unfair to him. I mean, him saving me was wonderful enough.
Lan turned to look at me, his eyes wide, as if he was shocked at my revelation. “Leave? Why? What the heck for?”