Grai's Game (First Wave) by Mikayla Lane Read Free Book Online

was the one creating it.” Dread acknowledged, slightly impressed with what he was learning about the young Relian’s in the room.
    What they were not saying was just as important as what they were. He would have to talk to Ivint later about what he could sense.
    Traze replaced the image of the room of dark ones with different video footage of Tristan in various stages of seizures. Grai reached over and pulled Tricia into his arms when she broke down in sobs, unable to watch her son in so much pain.
    “Enough!” Grai said gruffly to Traze. He ignored the curious stares of everyone in the room as he tried to calm and soothe his mate. Traze instead put up images of earlier times, footage he’d found when his brother finally told he and Koda about his mate and son a few days ago.
    Video of his brother laughing and cuddling a happily pregnant Tricia. His brother holding his newborn son for the first time, the tears shining in his eyes along with a pride that was unmistakable.
    “I said enough!” Grai said angrily this time as he glared at his brother until the screen went blank.
    “What did you hope to gain?” Balduen asked with a low, menacing growl that startled everyone.
    “A cure. The human scientists I employed privately found a genetic imbalance. Because she is not gifted or hybrid, her body does not produce the enzymes required to sustain the beast within the brain. That means Tristan’s does not either.”
    “The only hope was to produce another child, with the correct enzymes , use it to create a synthetic version and inject them into his brain. Because of the uniqueness of each beast and host, the child had to be mine, like Tristan, for it to work.” Grai admitted, his voice rough and gravelly from emotion and the grinding of his teeth.
    He had always been such an intensely private person, for reasons of survival, and it was beginning to disturb him to be sharing so much information. Even though he knew he had to in order to get their cooperation.
    “And you used Dare to do it?” Balduen’s voice held a dangerous edge that made everyone in the room immediately tense.
    “What would you do for your son? For Dare, if she asked it of you?” Tricia surprised them all with the anger lacing her usually quiet voice.
    “ I gave him the idea. I had read about how parents of children with cancer would have another child to be a marrow donor to the first. We had no idea it would be Dare. That had already been set in motion by his father’s people. They had set a random trap that she happened to fall into.”
    “Do you think we wanted this? We had no idea it was even possible for us to have a child! Again, what would you do to save your son?” Tricia spoke directly to Balduen in broken sobs, her body shaking from her pain and shame.
    Balduen stared at the woman sobbing before him, even the agony of the proud Relian radiated through his heightened senses. There was nothing false about what they felt about their child and their need to save him.
    It didn’t help that he couldn’t get the picture of the tiny dark-haired boy writhing and jerking in agony on the bed in the video, out of his mind. He could easily imagine that being the dark blonde head of his own son, his knuckles popped from the pressure of his fists clenching.
    The woman, Tricia, had a point as well. One he hated to admit, even to himself. For Dare, for his child, he had no idea what he could be capable of in order to save them.
    “The pain they are in and the pain of that child is real Balduen. I may abhor the way they have done this, but as she said, I do not know what I would do were it my child. It does not excuse it, but it makes it more understandable knowing it wasn’t out of an intention to do harm to anyone.” Dread said through their private energy path, trying to comfort his new friend.
    He could feel the warring emotions in him the longer he remained in the room with the man who had effectively impregnated his mate.
    “I need to