Free Wolf Mate by Natalie Kristen Page A

He's
a good man. I will do everything I can to get the truth out of
Rebecca.”
    He stared at her for a while.
“Can you draw out her emotions even though she is in a coma?”
he said at last.
    “ It's not too different
from drawing out someone's emotions while they are sleeping,”
she said pointedly. “As you said, I've done it before. Last
night. But I won't do it again. Not with you,” she said
emphatically.
    Dax's gray eyes darkened, but
he said nothing.
    “ We'll go to the
hospital now,” was all he said when the lift door opened at the
ground floor.

CHAPTER
TEN

    There was a human police
officer standing guard outside the ward. Dax showed the police
officer his identification. The officer squinted at the official PAC
badge that was issued to its members, Enforcers and its appointed
legal counsel.
    “ So you're the PAC
lawyer,” the officer sniffed. Melynda sensed that he was about
to say more, but fortunately for him, he held his tongue and waved
them in.
    “ The police don't seem
to like you,” Melynda commented wryly as they entered the room.
    Dax shrugged. “At this
moment, I've defending the bear shifter accused of killing a man and
wounding a helpless woman. The woman is in a coma. She can't speak
up for him. A whole squad of police officers saw Levi attacking the
human male. It's their word against his.”
    “ But they didn't see the
body...”
    “ Shifters are incredibly
fast. They assumed Levi flung the body into the sea the split second
he heard or saw or smelled them.”
    Melynda fell silent, listening
to the soft beep of machines and monitors in the room. Rebecca Rose
had suffered severe trauma. There were massive, terrible injuries to
her head and there was a risk that she might never regain
consciousness.
    Melynda took a painful breath
as she stepped up to the bed. Rebecca was swathed in bandages from
head to toe. She had been brutally assaulted, and Melynda knew that
even if she survived her physical wounds, her mental and emotional
wounds might take much longer to heal. The scars left by her ordeal
would stay with her for a long, long time, perhaps forever. No
wonder Levi had been so enraged. Seeing his mate so violently and
viciously attacked by a brute would awaken every protective and
killer instinct in the shifter. In his bear form, Melynda had no
doubt that Levi could kill the human male with just one blow. But
she believed that Levi didn't kill him. He wasn't a killer. He
couldn't be.
    “ Can you read her?”
Dax said, staring down at Rebecca's bruised, swollen face.
    Melynda touched Rebecca's hand
lightly. A tingling sensation crept up her arm, and swirls of colors
flashed on the back of her eyelids. She saw images, snapshots and
heard whispers and echos in her mind. Melynda gasped. “Yes!
I can. I...I believe she's trying to reach out. She might be in a
coma, trapped in an unresponsive body, but she is here. And she
knows we are here...for Levi.”
    Melynda bent forward and took
Rebecca's cold hand in hers. “Rebecca, I know you can hear me.
My name is Melynda Morgan. I'm here with Dax Ferro. Dax is Levi's
lawyer, and we are here to help you and Levi. I...I am Dax's
secretary, and I am also a witch.” Melynda paused and
swallowed nervously. She sensed no shock or fear from Rebecca. “I
am an Emotional witch, Rebecca. I can draw out people's emotions and
see them. If it's okay with you, I'd like to see your emotions,
Rebecca. Show me what happened that night through your emotions, so
we can help Levi. Will you do that?” she asked softly.
    Rebecca's hand grew soft and
warm in her grasp, and Melynda saw flashes of soft pink before her
eyes. The pastel color was gentle and accepting, and Melynda nodded.
“Thank you, Rebecca,” she whispered. “I will
begin now. Just relax and...think of Levi. Show me your feelings
for Levi.”
    Melynda kept one hand on
Rebecca's shoulder and straightened up. With her other hand, she
drew the symbol of the moon in the air, and chanted