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“I’m waitin’.”
Link handed her the warm yel ow cup.
Doc Asher looked at Link from the other side of his desk. “You see, son, sometimes when a boy and a girl—a man and a woman—truly love each
other—”
“Are you kidding me, Doc? I think I’ve got that talk covered.” Not that anyone had ever bothered to have it with him, but he’d learned al the facts of
life the way God intended, by spying on the girls’ locker room next to the unheated swimming pool at church camp.
Doc Asher leaned back in his chair. “Don’t interrupt. As I was saying, sometimes when a man truly loves a woman, he wants to impress her. Maybe
develop bigger muscles. Show off a bit.”
“Are you askin’ me somethin’, Doc?” Link knew his mom had probably already shared her steroids theory.
Doc Asher picked up a pen and Link’s chart off the desk. “Have you been feeling angry?”
Was he for real?
“I don’t know, Doc. Have you?”
“Wesley, this is serious. The abuse of steroids…”
Link stopped listening and started wondering if the serious abuse of your son’s privacy would show up in the container. Until Doc said something
that
stopped him cold.
“With al the changes your mother’s mentioned, after I cast your arm, I think I’m going to check for puncture marks.”
Puncture marks? It took him a second to put it together. Doc was talking about needle marks, from shooting steroids. But that wasn’t the kind of
puncture Link was thinking about.
He froze. And suddenly he wasn’t in the doctor’s office anymore. He was back in a dark cave at the Great Barrier the night before, during Lena’s
Claiming. The fighting had already started, and he was standing between Ridley and John Breed—who looked like some psycho robot. Link wasn’t
gonna let John hurt Rid, no matter what. But just as Link was planning to rush him, the guy ripped, disappearing. Link scanned the cavern trying to
figure out where John went.
A second later, he knew.
Link felt John’s teeth sink into his neck.
It hurt like hel , and it burned like it, too. He could hear Ridley screaming, pink and blond hair whipping through the air as she jumped onto John.
Between the two of them, they threw John off. Or maybe he just let go. But he left something behind.
Two puncture marks, shaped like canines.
Link sat in Doc’s office for the rest of the visit, but he wasn’t listening anymore.
Link doesn’t spook easily, but that same night he climbed through my window and told us everything.
He was scared, and Lena and Ridley tried to explain some of the basic Incubus facts of life to him, even they couldn’t tel him everything he needed
to know.
But I knew someone who could.