Free Taming Jax (First Wave Book 5) by Mikayla Lane Page B

girls when he sucked in a sharp breathe.
     
    “Yeah, you should have seen it the first time. It encompassed you as well. It seems to be a defensive mechanism similar to the Earth chameleons.” Amun said with a grin before turning back to his scanner.
     
    Reven stared in awe where the girls should be. In their place was a blur of shadow, but down near the floor, Reven could see the bottom of Jax’s boot. All three of them were perfectly camouflaged with the room.
     
    Reaching out to where he assumed they were, he was surprised when a small hand grasped his own and the three of them came into perfect focus. Pale blue eyes looked up at him as if afraid he might be angry at her.
     
    “Baby girl, you are amazing! That was wonderful! You protected yourself and your sister, and that is exactly what you should do. You’re such a brave girl. I’m proud of you, little one.” Reven said, choking up at how the frightened little girl had included him and Jax in her disguise, trying to protect them as well.
     
    Reven looked at Amun when the doctor cleared his throat. “I must put them to sleep to treat them.” Amun told him and Jax through the Shengari’.
     
    Reven nodded, knowing, by the way, Amun said it that he wasn’t going to like what he would hear. He was surprised when Grai came back into the room and stood to the side followed by Lara and Viper. Shit this wasn’t going to be good Reven thought as he nodded at Amun, who handed him two little medibands.
     
    “I promise you little one; we will be here while you are being treated, we won’t leave you.” Jax whispered as Reven put the medibands on their hands, and they drifted to sleep. The camouflage dissipated as the medicine took over, shutting down their minds and bodies.
     
    “I need to get their treatment started. Please lay them on the bed, Jax.” Amun said softly, anxious to begin healing the children.
     
    Jax glanced at Reven for a moment before gently laying the girls back on the bed. It was harder than she expected it to be when she had to remove the baby’s fingers from her hand.
     
    “If you give me a moment, I’ll get the treatment started, then go over what we know.” Amun said, quickly stepping in front of the children to begin programming the medibands to begin their healing.
     
    Reven and Jax nodded their heads, pretending to ignore Grai, Lara and Viper, who stood on the other side of the room watching them silently.
     
    “I don’t like that they are here.” Jax said to Reven through their private communication path.
     
    Without even glancing in their direction, Reven responded vehemently. “I don’t give a damn why they are here. It will have no bearing on what happens with the children.”
     
    Jax would have loved to believe that, but something told her that they were going to end up in a battle over the welfare of these kids. Normally, she would leave it up to Grai and the others, but not in this situation. Not with these kids, she thought. They were different.
     
    Jax turned from Reven and the others to look at the children, stunned that she was even considering keeping them. She’d never really thought about children before. Hell she never thought she’d ever find anyone that could put up with her, or that she could tolerate enough to even think about it before now.
     
    Reaching out, she gently caressed the little hand of the baby. The one that had held her own so tightly and couldn’t think of anything but taking her and her sister home. Somehow, she knew in her heart that they were meant to be hers.
     
    “All right. Now that their treatments have begun, we can go over the preliminary findings.” Amun said as he grabbed his comm and turned to Reven and the others.
     
    “We’ll start with the older child since she is the one that will need more extensive treatment.” Amun paused to ensure he had everyone’s attention; he had no desire to run through the results a second time. Once would be more than enough for