Unchained (Wolf in Exile Part 2): Werewolf Shifter/Vampire Paranormal Romance by Ambrielle Kirk, Amber Ella Monroe

CHAPTER ONE
    “ K alena .”
    Someone was calling her. She recognized the voice. The sound of it settled deeply within her soul, drawing her out of slumber.
    “Kalena? It’s Thane.”
    His fingers grazed her shoulder, and she forced her eyes open despite the drumming pain near her temples. The first thing she recognized was unruly chestnut hair framing a hard contoured face.
    “What happened?”
    Thane helped her sit upright. “You blacked out.”
    She glanced around to find that she was in the same hut, in the same clothes, and surrounded by the same drab lighting. Was she having deja-vu? Hadn’t she woken up in this same spot and predicament with no recollection of how she’d come to be here before?
    “Blacked out how?” Kalena held her hand up to her forehead.
    He narrowed his gaze. “Can you remember anything before you lost consciousness?”
    She nodded. “We were talking about Silex and your parents.” She brought her hand to her lips. “And…we kissed. You left, but I can’t remember anything after that.”
    “And before our talk…can you remember anything before then?”
    “I just remember one pissed off wolf tearing through a bunch of other wolves, and then it shifted back to a naked man who turned out to be you. Then that lady told me that you'd just bought me."
    He regarded her quizzically and then said, "I guess first impressions always stick."
    “I don’t think I’ll ever forget that moment.”
    His shoulders dropped and a sigh of relief passed from his lips. “Then it’s only short-term memory loss.”
    She shook her head. “Memory loss?”
    “ Temporary short-term memory loss. There’s a reversal to the drug you were given. This cure will slowly rid your system of the agent causing your memory loss and blackouts.”
    Kalena shook her head. “One of the men who brought me here injected me with something when I tried to run off. And the night I was kidnapped, I was forced to breathe in some kind of chemical.” She gasped. “They used that D996 drug on me, didn’t they?”
    He turned to catch her gaze. “How do you know about D996?”
    “The day I was snooping in the labs, the day I was kidnapped, I came across the information. Someone must have left the logs open. I clicked on a few links and this database I’ve never seen before showed up. I read enough to know that mostly all the test subjects receiving the drug have died.”
    “Most everyone dies if they’re not given the cure,” Thane said. “If my timeline is correct, then you lost the equivalent of a day while you were traveling here on the cargo truck. That means you’ve had D996 in your system for less than a week,” he said.
    She slumped against him as another surge of nausea rushed over her.
    “The feeling will pass, but you will need more than one dose of the cure, and you will need it again soon.” Thane handed her a canteen of water.
    She took gulp after gulp of it, yet she still seemed unsatisfied. Her body craved the water to flush out whatever was causing her fatigue. As the beverage brought her temperature down, vivid memory flashes of the men chasing her down after she’d tried to escape with the truck came back to her.
    She inhaled deeply, and then her breath rushed out unevenly. "How long was I out?”
    “Nearly twenty hours.”
    “Almost a day? Really?”
    He nodded. “I sensed you were drugged when Nolan handed you over. I couldn’t be certain, and I fear you would’ve been out longer than you were without me intervening.”
    “Why would Silex create a drug with only this type of remedy?”
    “Silex is the largest and most powerful over-the-counter and prescription drug manufacturer. Because of your employment with the company, you should be aware that Silex has numerous product lines, but the company is mostly known for its painkillers—all of which are FDA approved and highly effective. What the public is not made aware of is that additional funding was provided to Silex by the government to