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She shook her head sadly. “Charity is well aware of the importance of what’s going on here. Trust me, Aiden; you can’t control her just because it’s your wish to do so. She’s stronger than that. ”
“I won’t argue with you, Armani,” he growled, careful to keep his voice low.
“Aiden, I have never considered you a stupid man. Don’t start playing the role now. ” Her voice was cold, lethal in its sarcasm. “Not just Charity’s survival, but the survival of your race depends on her at this point. Don’t let your possessive instincts destroy the good that came of what they did to her. She would only hate you for it. ”
“And how do you know this?” he bit out. “You have no idea who or what she is. ”
“Ah,and here is where you show your ignorance once again,” she sighed in regret. “Charity was, from the very beginning, a plant within the Council, Aiden. A very well hidden mole whose job it was to keep a careful accounting of everything that went on, day by day. All the tests, all the results. How do you think we’ve gained the information we have so far?”
Aiden’s eyes narrowed in suspicion. “Who is this ‘we’?” he asked her carefully. She sighed again. “Do you think I am the only doctor who turned down the Council and suffered for it?
There were several of us. You know how hard I’ve worked, Aiden, for your people. There are others who have worked with me. ”
“Why didn’t you mention this before?” he asked her coldly. “This information seems rather convenient, Armani. More of a carefully prepared lie than any hidden truth. ”
Yet, hadn’t Charity told him that it had been she who had contacted the journalists six years before? She had finally been caught in her deceit against the Council while helping the Winged Breeds. She had been in three of the Labs the Wolf Breed Enforcers had received information on, only to escape with the scientists before they could be caught. She had been in several of the Labs that freed Feline Breeds had sworn she had aided them at, in various ways.
He cursed. A low, vicious sound that grated on his own ears. Armani’s chuckle didn’t help the anger growing inside him.
“The fun part in dealing with judgmental assholes, is watching them fall when the truth finally hits them. Welcome to the real world, Aiden. Let’s see, you’ve hated and reviled your mate for six years, and still you haven’t even questioned how she came to be your mate. Or if she is even truly your mate. Have you even considered thinking past your dick yet?”
The woman had an evil mouth.
“She is my mate. ”
“Yet days ago you stood before me and said quite the opposite. ” She tilted her head as she watched him knowingly. “What changed your mind?”
“Does it matter?” he snapped out.
“Actually, it does. Let me tell you what I know, that you are unaware of, Aiden. ” She held up one hand and began counting down. “Number one; six years ago, to save your worthless hide, a virgin went to her knees and forced your erection when you would have died instead. In doing so, to hide the sudden swelling beneath her hands, she was forced to swallow your semen. The change in her body began days after. I have all the tests she ran on herself carefully documented. You didn’t mark her, so the saliva where the Breed hormone is more prevalent didn’t create the same effects Faith had from Jacob. But your semen created changes in Charity that were not apparent in Faith until after her mating withJacob, and her ingestion of…”
“Dammit, I don’t need to hear about my sister’s sex life. ” He pushed his fingers through his hair, trying to fight the knowledge that they were trembling.
“You are missing the point,” she sighed in exasperation. “The point is,certain changes begin with certain sexual passages. Faith was merely in heat for six years. Uncomfortable, at times painful, but Charity has gone farther than this.
“The hormone in your semen reacted in an entirely different way. I won’t get too technical on you, as I’m certain you wouldn’t understand,” she said, her tone superior, knowing. “But the fact of the matter is, she was the perfect specimen for the Council, because her body already had your DNA infecting her, slowly, too slowly, shaping itself and her ovaries, to prepare her to accept your unique sperm. ”
“Get to the fucking point,” he snarled. He was sick of the lesson in biology and her careful sarcasm.
“The point is,” she said with heavy patience. “The scientists found a way to advance the ovarian change. Her eggs must be compatible with your sperm to breed. To this point, neither my colleagues normyself
have figured out a way to do this. Charity’s body holds the answers. To help your sister and your Pack Leader’s mate, we must know those answers, Aiden. Charity knows this, the rest of us know this, now you must accept it. ”
“They hurt her,” he said softly, unable to still the rage that climbed inside his body at the thought of it.
“She nearly bled to death in my arms, whispering of rest. She sleeps now as though she hasn’t slept in years. ”
“She hasn’t, Aiden. ” Armani’s voice was now filled with regret, with compassion. “She has worked tirelessly to help others, even though she knew time was running out for her. Her body was making demands she couldn’t answer, and the Council was growing more suspicious of her. Now that she’s free, you won’t be able to control her; you won’t be able to bind her. You have no idea the nature, or the training of the woman you have taken. But I trust it will be amusing watching you learn. ”
She stood to her feet then, her dark eyes glittering from the rays of the moon, mockery lining her expression.
“You’re too smug to suit me,” he bit out. “What are you not telling me, Armani?”
She shrugged slowly. “There are some things,Aiden, that you must find out for yourself. I look forward to watching you struggle through it. I expect it to be amusing. ”
“You find too much amusement at my expense,” he grunted in disgust. Her laughter was light, amazingly feminine. “I must find my pleasures, small though theyare, where I can. I gave up my fiction fetish for this practice,” she growled irritably. “I should be amused somewhere. ”
She moved away then, obviously finished with him.
