That Girl is Poison - Milly Taiden Page 0,13
don’t even know where my car is.”
“I’ll have one of my enforcers check on the car. We’ll send him to the last place you saw it, and it will still be there.” Xeon knew the chances of it still being there were slim.
“I doubt it.” She looked down at her hands. “My purse and everything was in it. Looks like I have a bunch of calls to make to get everything canceled.”
“What did they do to you?” Xeon asked, curious to find out the answer. Different scents were coming from her, but they were changing.
“I only woke up for a little while on the lab table. Dr. Phenix, my boss, stood over me. He gave me another shot, and I passed out. Later, I woke up in a hospital bed on basement level one. Dr. Phenix said I had different DNA. He gave me more injections. The next time I woke up, I found myself in a cage. It was just big enough for a makeshift bed and enough room to pace a little.”
“I’m pretty sure it was the lowest level, basement level two. There were shifters in cages like mine. Some were large wolves, and others were in human form. Dr. Phenix did mention a vampire, but I couldn’t tell who he meant. I met Trina. I recognized her from the news report last week. That’s where I had gotten your number.”
“You saw Trina? Is she okay? Where is she?” he asked anxiously, sitting on the edge of his seat.
“Well, I guess she’s all right, the best I can tell. She didn’t look physically hurt, but they experimented on her too. They experimented on all of them.”
“What kind of experiments?” Kyro asked.
“When I called you the other day, I was a human. A completely normal human. Now, I can shift into a panther. Trina said she turned into a tiger. I saw a man named Benny, Trina said he belonged to her pack. Well, he now shifts into a hyena.”
“Where are they? How can they be changed like that?” Xeon couldn’t wrap his head around these experiments.
“At Garnett Medical Center. That’s where I work. Dr. Phenix is somehow changing our DNA using a serum made from other shifters, vampires, and who knows what else. I was out of it most of the time. So, I don’t know much. There were two wolves in cages across from me. I don’t know who they are or if they were originally wolves or not.” Mara explained what she knew.
“If you were out most of the time, how did you escape?” Xeon asked.
“I think once they changed my DNA to that of a shifter, my body metabolized the drugs quicker than he expected. When I came around the last time, I pretended to still be out. I think he injected me with vampirism. At least that’s what I understood from their conversation. Dr. Phenix wanted to give me a couple more doses of the vampirism serum. When he left the room, I kind of ripped Henry’s throat out and stole his keys and ran.”
“Who’s Henry?” Xeon asked, confused.
“Dr. Phenix’s assistant. He was helping him in his sick experiment.”
“Where are the keys? I didn’t see you with any when you came out of the alley,” Xeon recalled.
“I don’t know, I guess the keys are back at the hospital. I shifted in order to run away, I must have dropped them. We should find those keys. There’s a key on the keychain that opens the cages. That’s why I took them in the first place. I didn’t realize I dropped them. Shifting hasn’t been easy.” The feelings of failure were clear in her tone. She grabbed a throw that was on the back of the sofa and curled up into it.
“Your body wasn’t meant to shift. I imagine it hurts a great deal.” Kyro stood from his chair. “I’ll get something a little stronger than a soda.”
“I would love a drink, but I don’t want to be impaired.” She knew she needed to be levelheaded if she was going to help the shifters still in the cages. The fear of what the doctor would do once he realized she was gone drove her to stay awake and focused.
“Don’t worry, with your new DNA, a drink won’t affect like it did when you were just human,” Xeon explained while Kyro poured her a small glass of whiskey. “It will just take a little of the edge off and help you relax.”
“Here you go.” Kyro held out