Free Reclaimed (Wolf in Exile Part 4): Werewolf Shifter/Vampire Paranormal Romance by Ambrielle Kirk, Amber Ella Monroe

wouldn’t.” She pounded on his chest.
    Kalena shot up from the floor. She became sick to her stomach and threw up the food she’d eaten during brunch as she took off down the hall, but she didn’t care.
    As she came to the bend in the hallway, she collided with someone—David McCarthy.
    “What in the Sam Hill happened here?” he asked.
    Her knees gave out.
    “Help them…” were her last words before she faded.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
    “ K alena . Wake up. Kalena, wake up.” A woman shook her shoulders gently. “It’s me. Tracy. Please wake up.”
    Kalena fought to open her heavy eyelids only to be blinded by the lights.
    “Dad, move the light. She can’t see,” Tracy said. “Kalena, can you hear me?”
    “Yes,” Kalena uttered. She clutched the soft sheets beneath her.
    “Don’t try to get up. Drink this.” Tracy pressed a glass to her lips.
    Kalena sipped the cool water and her body revived as hydration sated her. “Thane? Where’s Thane?”
    There was a pause.
    “We have to talk to you…”
    Kalena shot upright from the bed and her fatigued muscles protested. “Take me to him!”
    Violent, putrid memories flooded back to her. She tried to swing her legs over the bed, but Tracy and another pair of strong hands held her back.
    “Please, ma’am, you must lie back,” the old man, who held a strong resemblance to Tracy urged.
    “This is my dad, Kalena. We practice medicine. We help shifters and altered humans. Remember what I told you?”
    “Yes, but where’s Thane?
    “Thane is stabilized,” Dr. O’Neill said.
    “Stabilized?” Kalena glanced warily back and forth between the two.
    Tracy and Dr. O’Neill exchanged uneasy glances.
    Kalena’s heart sped up rapidly in her chest, and a little machine beside her beeped excessively. “Oh, God…”
    Tracy rubbed her arms. “Take it easy, okay?” She turned to look at her dad. “Will you check the other room please?”
    Dr. O’Neill nodded and left them alone in the room.
    “He was bleeding and I couldn’t stop it. He fell and…and…” Kalena blurted the moment the older doctor had left the room.
    “Listen to me,” Tracy urged. “Get a hold of yourself or you’ll miscarry. Whatever happens, you have to live and be strong for your babies.”
    “My babies?” Wide-eyed, Kalena looked around the room. There were no children. “I don’t see any babies.”
    “Kalena, you’re pregnant.” Tracy nodded.
    Kalena glanced down at her belly. “It can’t be…”
    “It’s still early, but we think you might have conceived a few days ago.”
    “I haven’t taken a pregnancy test,” Kalena said.
    “You can if you need to, but we can smell it, Kalena.”
    “Oh…” Her breath came out in a rush.
    “Tracy!” Her dad stuck his head back in.
    “Dad?”
    “We need to get her in the other room with Thane. Brant’s orders.”
    “I don’t want her standing or walking right now,” Tracy said. She pointed to a chair with wheels behind a writing desk. “Get me that chair. We’ll wheel her in there.”

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
    T racy and her father wheeled Kalena into a separate bedroom of the ShadowRock mansion. She’d never been in this room. The walls were painted a lighter color than Thane’s master bedroom, and the furniture pieces, although the same style, were placed differently. The room was also smaller. There were at least five people already standing over the bed, but the only person she was intent on seeing was Thane.
    He was lying on the bed, hooked up to several machines. Bruised and battered. Eyes closed. Unconscious but breathing.
    Tracy wheeled her chair as close as she could, and Kalena reached for Thane’s hand.
    “Please tell me he’s just sleeping,” she asked no one in particular, trying to hold her frustration inside.
    “In a sense, yes,” Dr. O’Neill replied.
    There were two vampires in the room: a dark, brooding figure she’d never seen before, and another with ashen skin and black hair past his waist.
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