Free Grounding Gracus (First Wave Book 6) by Mikayla Lane Page A

Gracus began before he looked at his lap and sighed. “Am I back on the Adaria?”
    Grai laughed. “No, you’re here in Dillon. We were the closest and most complete MedLab to where you were. Since we weren’t sure what the drug’s effects would be, you were brought here to recover.” Grai sobered, knowing that the poor man probably needed some peace now more than ever.
    “Gracus, as soon as you are fully recovered, we will find another place, free of drugged candy, for you to go. I am sorry that my lack of forethought has caused you such grief on your first visit to this world. I had intended that it be pleasant for you and failed miserably. For that I apologize, but if you will give me the chance, I will make it up to you.”
    When Gracus looked to argue, Grai interrupted him, knowing the man didn’t need to be making rash decisions out of embarrassment. “You get better and in a day or so, when Amun releases you from care, we can discuss this further. Until then… I have a brother to find. Just get well, my friend, everything else is under control,” Grai said with a smile before he nodded at Scaden and Amun and went in search of his asshole brother who had done such a dick move showing Gracus those pictures.
    Gracus just nodded his bent head, his face flaming in his embarrassment as he tried to put the images in his head in some sense of order. It was all coming at him so fast and his mind was still working far too slowly to keep up.
    “Gracus…,” Scaden began, feeling terribly for his friend.
    Gracus looked up at him and Amun with sad eyes. “I really need to just think for a little while and try to make sense of everything. Can you give me some time… please,” Gracus asked, hoping they would leave him to his own thoughts for a little while.
    Scaden looked at Amun, as if wondering if it was all right to leave him alone and it pissed Gracus off. “Don’t look at Amun damn it. I’m not a child! Get the hell out and leave me alone for a little while!”
    When his two friends just stared at one another, obviously speaking privately through the Shengari’, Gracus started to get really angry until they finally nodded at him and left the room.
    Although one of them had taken the images off the walls of his room, Gracus couldn’t get them out of his head. There was something nagging at his mind. Something important that he needed to remember.
    Still feeling a little unsteady, he laid back down and closed his eyes, willing his beast, Clatz, to speak to him again and help him figure out what happened. He lay there for hours, trying to slow down the images as his brain tried to shake the drug and catch up.
    It was the image of the bears, still in his mind, that kept causing his head to tingle aggressively that was driving him crazy. He drifted off to sleep with the image still stuck in his head.
    An hour later he awoke with a start and the first thing he remembered was a face. A beautiful face, with laughing brown eyes, full, pouty lips and light brown hair with streaks that shone with golden highlights as the sun hit it.
    His mate! He’d found his mate! he thought in amazement as he slid out of the bed and stood, holding onto the bed as he swayed for a second before he righted himself. Who was she? Where the hell did he find her? He wondered as he tried to make his still slow brain fill in the large blank spots in his memory.
    It had to have been while he was here on the planet , he thought, knowing there was no way that he’d found her here at Dillon. The sun was behind her, he thought, allowing the image to dominate his mind while he tried to get clues to where she was. Where he had seen her.
    Desperately holding the image in his mind, Gracus studied it. He realized that he had been looking up at her, laying on something cold and hard while something warm covered his back and part of his front.
    It was then that the image Traze displayed on the wall rushed into his head and he finally understood. His