Free ToLoveaCougar by Marisa Chenery Page B

do anything stupid with it. I have to give you two shots. One dose of each should be enough, but if you don’t improve in a couple of days, he told me to give you another.”
    Blaise’s father held out his arm. “Do it. I’m sure one dose will be enough.”
    She dumped the medicine and syringes onto the bed and prepared the first injection with the amount her doctor friend prescribed. Once she administered it, she readied the second.
    Harley had just stuck the needle into Blaise’s father’s shoulder when she heard, “What’s going on here? What’s she giving to my patient? I came back to check on him since I couldn’t give him his medication and this is what I find?”
    She quickly pushed the plunger home, emptying the syringe. Harley barely managed to take out the needle before she was roughly pushed aside. This was obviously Caleb.
    “She was undoing what you did,” Blaise said.
    Anger clouded Caleb’s face. “What do you mean by that exactly?” he demanded.
    “Harley is a medical lab technician. We allowed her to run some blood tests on my father’s blood. She found the poison you’ve been giving to him. We know what you’ve been doing.”
    It all happened so suddenly Harley had no chance of getting away. Caleb grabbed her around the throat and spun her so her back was against his front. He growled like a big cat, his fingers tightening until she could barely breathe. She reached up and tried to tear his hand away, but he was stronger than she.
    “If not for this meddling bitch none of you would have known,” Caleb said in a voice laced with another growl. “I never would have thought you’d have allowed a human to do any kind of test on him. Who would have known our glorious leader of our family group would have taken the risk of letting one learn the secret of what we are. You’ve surprised me.”
    “Let her go,” Blaise said, his upper lip lifting in a snarl. “You’ve been found out. It’s time to face up to what you’ve done.”
    Caleb laughed with no humor. “I think not. Your human girlfriend is my ticket out of here. None of you will try anything as long as I have her.” He slowly backed away from the bed and the others.
    “Why, Caleb?” Blaise’s father asked, stopping Caleb. “After all I’ve done for you.”
    “All you did for me? Like taking my parents away so I could grow up with an aunt who hated me and mistreated me whenever she got the chance? I used you, took whatever I could get out of you. And don’t try to deny what you did. Tell them. Tell your precious family what you did to my father. My aunt knew because my mother told her before she took her own life.”
    “I didn’t do anything. Your father, my brother, made the decision to abandon you and your mother himself.”
    “That’s a lie. He never would have left my mom on his own. You knew he wanted to take your place as leader of our family group. You gave him the choice of losing his life for trying to force you out or banishment. He chose the latter.”
    “Is that what your mother told your aunt? If it is, then it’s a lie. Your mother had…problems…when it came to perceiving the world around her.”
    “Shut up,” Caleb said with a snarl as he tightened his grip even more on Harley’s throat, causing her to whimper with fear.
    Blaise’s father held out his hand. “Stop, Caleb. I’ll tell you the truth. Your mother was never my brother’s mate.”
    “Bullshit. She wore his pendant. I remember her wearing it.”
    “It wasn’t his. She had a human jeweler make a copy of one. There was no mating bond between your parents. When your mother became pregnant with you, my brother tried to make it work, even though she wasn’t his mate. But he strayed as a lot of males do when they stay in a relationship with a female who isn’t meant to be theirs. He found his mate. Your mother didn’t take it well. She plotted to kill your father’s new mate, and almost succeeded.
    “My brother deemed she would