Chapter 210

Later that day, I’ve just started my snooping mission when

Adam comes to find me in the office. If he thinks it’s weird I’m

sitting at Aaron’s desk and using Aaron’s computer, he doesn’t say anything.

“I should have guessed you’d go right back to working after being in a car accident and almost getting kidnapped last night,” Adam says, and his smile somehow manages to be both affectionate and admonishing.

“The packs and businesses aren’t going to run themselves,” I

tell him.

I’m impatient to discover whatever I can about Aaron’s activities the past few months, and am not really in the mood to make small talk with Adam.

“Is there something you need?”I ask him, not bothering to hide. the hint of impatience in my voice.

Annoyance crosses Adam’s face, but he quickly covers it with a

smile.

“Again, you were in a car accident last night. I’d like you to come to the medical annex for a checkup.”

Adam’s preoccupation with my health almost borders on

obsessive.

But he is also my oldest friend, and a few short months ago, I was dying from cancer.

Plus, I think maybe I can use the time to subtly question him about Aaron and what he was up to while I was in a coma.

I don’t expect Adam to know much-he’s Roberts pack, not Rathborn pack, and its not like he’s one of Aaron’s top guys.

But maybe he saw or heard something that can point me in a direction of where to look for further information.

I tell him, and I can

been the most

as you make it snappy,” I continue, covering up my too-easy agreement. “I’ve got a million things to

replied with a smile that doesn’t quite reach

of the mansion and

medical annex.

Adam takes me to his office instead of

triage rooms like usual.

peppers me with questions as he takes my vitals, stopping every now and then to enter information into

I hedge questions about Aaron and what was going on with the packs all those months

as I’m pondering how to come at

in

open. I lean over in my chair to see where a couple of wolves are laying one of the guys onto a gurney,

takes charge and whisks the gurney out

sight.

wondering, and then my attention is drawn to

but I’m suddenly intensely curious to know what my medical file

was healed, and even though my heart spasms at the thought,

slide over to Adam’s desk chair and start clicking through notes, but I very

on me are

long before I got cancer and came back into the fold of the

up the pace as more and more shocking details

stage when he was treating me, Adam injected

has been going on

start

apparently successful pregnancy, despite the fact I was

a coma.

as

of the attack, or

had a successful

my entire body numb and I suddenly feel like I’m wading through some kind of

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