Meryn looked up at her mate, a disgusted look on her face. "No. Someone seems to have left that shit out. Seriously Aiden? Homeschool? I don't have time for that."

Aiden paled. "I didn't even think about it. It's such a natural thing in our world."

Rheia shook her head. "I'm going to be working at the clinic all day, I won't be able to homeschool either."

Beth frowned. "I also have a full plate. In addition to collecting and maintaining information for all of the unit warriors, the council has asked me to perform a sort of census for paranormals, to get a better idea of who is located where, outside the pillar cities. That could take me years."

Gerard chuckled. "It's a good thing you have Mina then." He turned to Aiden. "And I'm pretty sure your mother would be more than happy to help teach her grandchildren."

Aiden looked down at his mate. "See, baby, nothing to worry about. Now, let's see what we can do to get you to de-stress."

Meryn was about to respond when Aiden's phone rang. Meryn rolled her eyes. "There is no such thing as no stress around here."

"McKenzie here. What?" Aiden shouted, standing quickly. Around the table the other Alpha Unit members stood. Aiden put the phone on speaker. "What do you mean the clinic was attacked? How's my brother?" Aiden demanded

"He's in bad shape. We need the other Doc to come patch him up. He's not healing fast enough, Aiden!" An anxious male voice shouted.

"Calm down, Ben. Can you bring him here?" Aiden nodded to Gavriel. The vampire kissed his mate and moved quickly towards the foyer, Darian and Keelan close behind him.

Rheia stood and placed Penny in her chair. She kissed her forehead and looked down at Colton. He nodded and stood beside her.

"We can't move him, Aiden. I think we're losing him," Ben said, getting choked up.

"We'll be there in a few minutes, baby brother. Hold on, don't you dare lose him!" Aiden ordered and ended the call. He looked up to find that Rheia and Colton waiting on him.

"Let's go."

Rheia turned to Mina and Gerard. "Can you please watch over her?"

Mina nodded. "Of course, honey, go save our doctor."

Rheia grabbed Colton's hand and together they ran towards the door.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Rheia and Colton jumped out of the car and raced into the building. Aiden and the other men of the Alpha Unit emptied out of their SUV right behind them. Quinn met them at the door and ran with them down the hall. They were almost to Adam's office when ferals began to pour from the rooms on either side of the hallway.

"It's a trap!" Darian yelled.

"Kill the woman! Find the slides!" A rough voice screamed from behind the pack of attacking ferals.

Rheia found herself sandwiched between Aiden and Colton each firing his weapon into moving targets, almost without even looking in their direction. When their ammo ran out, Colton and Aiden roared loudly and let their claws free. In a perfectly coordinated dance practiced over centuries, Colton rushed forward and blindly flung the enemy back to Aiden who would gouge the feral across the neck and drop the body. They moved fluidly together in perfect synchronization until a sea of ferals lay dead at their feet. Colton lifted Rheia past the gore and they hurried on to Adam's office.

Ben looked up when they entered. "Where the hell have you been?" He stopped and looked at their blood smeared clothing. "What happened?"

Rheia walked past him and knelt beside Adam on the floor. Someone had applied bandages to his midsection, but they were already caked in blood. Slowly she lifted the gauze and sucked in her breath, she could see his intestines protruding outside of a long, wide slash. She stood and ran from the room, Colton on her heels. She went to one of the empty examination rooms and began to pile the items that she needed placing them on a sterile tray.

When they arrived back in the office she looked around. "Clear the room. I don't want any debris kicked up that could get into the wound. Ideally we'd be in a sterile environment, but we dare not move him." She looked over to Colton. "I'll need you to wash your hands and put on a pair of gloves; you'll need to hand me things as I call for them."

Colton immediately went to the sink to do as he was told. Rheia arranged the tools she needed on the tray and then joined him at the sink as Aiden emptied the room. When they turned back Aiden stood by the door. He looked her in the eye. "I'm not leaving."

"If you're to stay, don't move from that spot," Rheia ordered. Aiden nodded.

Slowly she began the tedious process of putting Adam's insides back on the inside. They lucked out in that he didn't have perforated bowels. After about an hour of flushing the wound and sewing multiple internal sutures, Adam's body began to heal itself. She watched in amazement as he turned the corner and the dissolvable stitches that she just put in began to melt before her eyes. In the end all she had to do was hold the flesh together long enough for it to heal and seal itself.

To be on the safe side she applied medical glue and taped his wound shut. Colton helped her lift him so they could wrap his midsection. Breathing a sigh of relief she sat back and checked his pulse. His heart was beating strong.

"Can we move him?" Aiden asked, startling her. She had forgotten he was even still in the room.

She nodded. "Yes, but be very careful with him."

Aiden opened the door. "Darian, Oron, you're on deck." Aiden moved out of the way as the two huge fae stepped in and carefully lifted the large bear shifter.