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The coroner said the drug found in Su-jin’s blood was altered, though. Given what she went through physically, the state of her heart, the particular wounds…”
    He paused as if not wanting to go into too much detail, a hesitance Sarah was grateful for.
    With an audible swallow, he continued, “The coroner suspects she was paralyzed but conscious. He can’t be sure what the altered drug does without testing, though, and that’s going to take some time. He also thinks Williams made this drug himself because he can’t find any records of it being developed.”
    “Was it made to hold tigers?” she asked. “Does Willams know about us?”
    Her heart hammered a little harder. Damn it! She’d gone after him without enough information. If he knew about tigers, if he’d designed a drug specifically for her people, Williams was a more dangerous man than she’d thought.
    “The coroner thinks the new drug is meant for humans,” Daniel cut into her thoughts. “Su-jin seemed to have been given…a lot. If Williams had designed the new drug for our metabolisms, the coroner thinks the dosage would have been smaller. But he needs to do more research. He can’t say for sure yet.”
    “Okay.” Shit. She was going to have to be more careful the next time she went after Williams.
    “Williams has to suspect something was different about Su-jin,” Daniel said, his tone foreboding. “Even if the drug wasn’t designed for shapeshifters.”
    “All the more reason for us to kill him. If he learns about us, if he finds out that drug of his will contain tiger shifters, he’s a threat to us all.”
    “Damn it, Sarah, do you know who his father is? We can’t just kill this man without risking everything. Everything! Enough. We won’t get revenge directly. We have to leave it up to the human authorities.”
    “Fuck the human authorities,” she growled. “He’s still free, even after they questioned him in Su-jin’s murder. They won’t do anything either because of his father.”
    Since he’d been in Su-jin’s calendar, the police had talked to Williams, but they hadn’t even brought him into the station. They’d let him go about his business without pushing for the truth.
    Now the human authorities didn’t even have a body or any forensics to pursue. Her people had made sure of that by taking everything attached to Su-jin, to protect themselves. They’d even cleared out Su-jin’s apartment. The humans had nothing left to work with. All because her people wanted to remain hidden.
    Sarah wanted to scream. Protecting themselves meant a killer went free. It wasn’t right. It wasn’t fair! Su-jin deserved better.
    Daniel merged right and took an off-ramped marked with signs for food and gas. Sarah expected him to stop, but instead he drove past the gas station and fast food restaurant, and continued on a narrow road winding through rolling hills and farmlands.
    “Where the hell are you taking me?” He’d never actually told her.
    “No place you’ve been before. Don’t worry. You’re safe with me.”
    “I’m not worried about you,” she snapped.
    That was a big lie, but she refused to admit it to him. She didn’t even want to admit it to herself. This close to her estrous, she was so very vulnerable to the attraction between them. Especially when she took a deep breath and her head filled with his scent—that combination of unique musk and a tang of citrus and cumin. Daniel’s specific taste drew her like the heat of a fire on a snowy night.
    She studied him from the corner of her eye. Her awareness of him heightened. Her skin tingled and her thighs clenched as her pulse pumped harder. In the faint light from the dashboard, dark shadows danced across his features, cutting them sharper and reminding her of how he looked in the moonlight, staring down at her, intense and intent on her.
    Three nights from now, she’d be expected to Run. The part of her that had always wanted Daniel, that reveled in the three