Free Lacey's Luhpynes [Beyond the Veil 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) by Honor James Page A

me?”
    “Uh-huh, I’m going to remind you later you used that line,” he said, straightening up and passing her an arm guard. Zhubin walked around her and nodded, “Now you’re ready,” he told her as he moved to arm himself. Pulling on his holster he withdrew his blade, spun it around and slid it into the sheath on his spine. Sliding his guns into place and then his other, smaller blades he looked to her. “Let’s go and see what they managed to salvage from the warehouse and find out what we can, we need to figure out where this asshole is and end him.”
    “And let’s go and let the medical team poke and prod me so that I can get my clearance to go back out on the field.” She hated going to medical. Truly hated going to medical because they liked to poke and prod and hurt. She hated it.
    Frowning, he touched her arm when she was close enough, “What’s going on in that head of yours, Lacey?” Catching her hand, he pulled her to a stop when she would have gone past. “Lacey, why are you making that face? What are you not telling me?”
    “I hate medical,” she admitted. “You know that I bruise easily, well they tend to poke, prod and I end up with more bruises when I leave medical than before I was in there. They will also likely want to run a CAT scan or MRI which always give me headaches. Just par for the course, right?”
    “They poke you once and I’ll rip them to shreds,” he said with a shrug. “Problem solved.” He smiled slightly and moved her toward the door. Punching the button for the elevator he walked in with her and they went up the three floors. Moving right at her side into medical, he looked around and singled out a doctor. “Clear her, yesterday,” he said, eyeing the female with a clear warning not to waste time written all over his face.
    The doctor nodded and looked to Lacey. “Yes sir,” she said and then looked to Lacey once more, “All right Agent Rose, let’s have a look at you shall we?” she asked and led the woman to a medical bay bed and then began to check and test her. “It says that we need to run an MRI and CAT scan, are you going to be okay with that?” Lacey nodded and she gave her ear plugs. “Put these in and we will go ahead and get you ready okay?”
    Standing to the side, Zhubin shook his head as he took all the weapons he’d just strapped on her. “This is not exactly what I had in mind.” He growled softly, eyeing the doctor. “You’d better give her something for the headache you’re about to create by doing this. Because I really don’t want to have to put up with her when she’s bitching you all out for the rest of the night. Not that I won’t put up with it, but I won’t be very happy the next time I come in here.”
    “Right, I will give her a painkiller but with her allergies it wouldn’t be a good idea for her to take what I would typically give, so what I have to give her will make her very sleepy. I would suggest that she go home for the day and sleep them and the headache off.”
    “No, we will just do the scans another day then,” Lacey said as she began to grab at her weapons once more. “Dammit, Zhu, give me my weapons back.”
    “You can’t go into the field without being cleared, Lace,” he said, shaking his head at her. He held the weapons out of her reach. “Get the scan, I think I have a better plan to rid you of your headache and get you working faster. Do it, Lace.” Zhubin looked down at her with a gentle expression.
    “Dammit. All right, fine. I will do it but you should know that I will be very, very cranky if I’m not able to go and hunt this bastard as well. Just for your own self-preservation you need to keep that in mind.”
    “Trust me, I fully understand.” Zhubin gave her a slight bow. “I’ll just be outside when you are finished with the scan. Don’t tarry,” he said, stepping out of the MRI room.
    Nearly an hour later she walked to him, a hand to her head and a snarl on her lips. Zhubin