Page 37 of Noah

His ears were tuned to her to listen for when she awoke, which was when he heard something interesting. Glancing at her, he saw her chest rising and falling and quietly prowled over to the door.

Cracking open the door; he heard Myers talking. “I don’t know what to think. When he talks about leaving, there seems to be a physical and emotional reaction, but the symptoms…”

Noah leaned out, listening intently.

“Do we need to worry about this happening to anyone else? Does this have anything to do with what they gave her and, if so, will it fade like it did with Jennifer?” Cain asked.

Jennifer, who was she, and what was she given?

“You know Jennifer took a cocktail of drugs designed for Numbers, and it made her heart work hard for a while afterwards. It was a huge strain, and it took a month for her heart to return to a normal human heartbeat,” Myers said. Adrienne’s heart is fine. Looking at her, I can’t tell anything is wrong.”

“What should we do?”

Noah’s eyebrows rose. It surprised him that the Alphas listened to others. Noah assumed that the Alphas took total control, and to him, that meant not listening to others. That’s what he saw with the humans in charge.

“I have Perdy running blood panels and DNA tests. Her haematology expertise is far greater. I can provide the basics and treat the problem. Perdy can pick it apart and find hidden problems that might otherwise remain unnoticed.”

“What will I do about Adrienne? We can’t force her to stay here.”

“During my last check, I overheard her discussing losing her apartment and backed away to let them talk.”

“Okay?”

“Offer her a place here,” Myers replied.

“A place here and what will I say? I need you to stay, so…here’s a home,” Cain snorted. “There’s no way that will work.”

Myers chuckled under his breath. “We can be more tactful than that,” he said. “What about Lila?”

Noah tilted his head. Would Lila be able to make her stay?

Cain growled. “What about her?” he asked in a dangerous tone.

“We can get her to speak with Adrienne. She is soft, but firm. If anybody can talk someone into something, she can.”

“I don’t know if she will agree to that,” Cain said. “There’s no way she’ll lie. She spent too many years hiding things.” He spoke with a wealth of meaning behind his words.

Noah wasn’t sure what it meant, but Myers must have understood since he made a soft sound of agreement.

“Let me speak with her first,” Myers said. “Adrienne might listen to her doctor. It isn’t a lie in the traditional sense. As a thanks for her help, she could make her home here temporarily and figure out what she wants to do.”

“She doesn’t have a family or a job. And we can’t just abduct her from her life,” Cain sounded stressed.

Myers snorted. Noah hoped this meant they could abduct her. “She was concerned about her apartment. Not family thinking she was missing, or her employer reporting her missing and potentially terminating her.”

“Do you think she doesn’t have a family?” Cain asked curiously.

“She doesn’t have any close family. Calling my wife and finding out what happened would be the first thing I would do,” Myers informed him.

Cain remained silent as Noah awaited his assessment. Noah was prepared for Cain’s rejection, and for Myers’ ideas to be shot down.

Noah slid his eyes towards his female and suppressed a growl. He would take her. He didn’t know where he was, but he would take Ren and hide with her.

Adrienne liked him. She would stay with him.

Surely there was a way to tell her she could not leave him.

It was supposed to be his freedom, his chance at life…but only with her.

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