the man’s torso, and Hunter grabbed his legs. The door to the medical building opened. Raul, the bear’s alpha, stepped out with Jonah behind him. Jonah had been Raul’s beta since he took over the clan ten years ago.
“Is it Alex?” Raul said, stepping aside so they could pass with the bear shifter.
“I don’t know. You see one bear shifter, you’ve seen them all.” Xeon shrugged. He only knew a few of the bear shifters.
“Now, you know that’s not true.” Raul clapped Xeon on the shoulder when he walked past him. “I’m glad you were able to get at least one of our guys back.”
“Don’t thank me yet. He’s been out for nearly two hours,” Xeon informed him. “I’m not sure what’s going on with him.”
“Get him up on the bed, and we’ll get him looked over. Melonie is on her way over now. She’s a general physician, but she knows her stuff. I’m sure she will have an idea of what’s happening.” Raul pointed to one of the hospital beds against the wall.
Ryder and Hunter laid the man on the bed, and Jonah covered him with a sheet. Even with all the moving around and manhandling, he didn’t wake. Xeon didn’t have a good feeling about it. Raul looked at him, and immediately Xeon knew what he was going to say.
“I’m glad you got him out. Sadly, he’s not one of mine.” Raul shook his head. “I had hoped it would be Alex. He’s been gone for nearly a month.”
“I’m pretty sure he had been experimented on. Who knows what he used to be, but he’s a bear now.” Xeon told him and sat in an office chair on the other side of the room.
“If he doesn’t have his own clan, then we’ll take him in.” Raul pulled out his phone and snapped a picture of the unconscious man. “Jonah, have you seen him before?”
“He looks familiar, but I don’t know who he is or what clan he belongs to.” Jonah stood next to the hospital bed, looking at the man.
The door opened, and everyone turned. Xeon had met Melonie once. She almost matched him in height. She’d tossed her dark black hair into a messy bun, which added another inch or so to her height.
“I see my patient beat me here.” Melonie came closer to the bed. Her eyes lit up when she looked at the man on the bed. “Zeke!” She rushed to his side.
“You know him?” Raul asked, his eyebrows furrowed.
“I... um... we have kind of been dating for a few months.” She hesitated. “We haven’t told anyone. When he went away, I thought he just wanted to avoid me. We had an argument, and the next day he wouldn’t return my calls. I thought he was ghosting me.”
“How long ago did that happen?” Xeon asked.
“The fight? About five weeks ago,” she answered and turned her attention to Zeke. “Why did you bring him here? His den has a medic unit. I don’t know if they have a doctor, though.”
“What was he?” Raul asked what Xeon thought.
“He’s a fox.” After a second, she turned to Raul and narrowed her eyes. “What do you mean was?”
“Apparently, he’s a bear shifter now,” Raul explained.
“Oh, that’s great!” Melonie smiled and turned back to Zeke. She ran her hand through his hair.
“You think that having a doctor experiment on him and changing his DNA is great?” Xeon cocked his head to the side. He saw no greatness in the situation.
“Well, not that part. We had a fight because I wanted to quit hiding our relationship, and Zeke didn’t want anyone in his den to know about him dating a bear. Now, it won’t matter because he’ll be a bear too,” she explained.
“It won’t be much of a relationship if he doesn’t wake up,” Kyro frowned and leaned against the wall.
“He’ll wake up,” she assured them. “He just needs rest. I’ll run some tests and see what I can find out. So, what is this about becoming a different shifter species?”
“We know they’re changing DNA. Taking from one and somehow changing another,” Xeon told her. “Mara said he’s even using vampire DNA. How do you change the DNA of the undead?”
“I don’t know. Maybe he isn’t changing the undead but using the vampire DNA to change others,” Melonie suggested. “I’m not a geneticist. I have no idea how that’s even possible.”
“We don’t know either, but it’s happening. The proof is right here in front of you.” Xeon pointed at Zeke.
“Yeah,” she