In the Blood by Katherine Kim

Author:Katherine Kim [Kim, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-23T22:00:00+00:00

7

“He’ll be okay, right?” Caroline shivered in spite of the heat radiating off of Greg who leaned over her from the next chair and had his arm wrapped around her shoulders. They’d been sitting like that for twenty minutes while Niha, Ollie, and another healer that she didn’t know worked behind closed doors. Greg rubbed his big hand up and down her arm and didn’t answer. There was no trace of his usual playful demeanor, but the dangerous predator she’d seen once or twice before wasn’t quite out either. Caroline didn’t know what to make of Greg being… grimly comforting.

“I’ve swept his desk, his trash, everything. There’s a team heading to his apartment now to sweep again there, but so far we can’t find any evidence that he hid supplies from us.” Mack walked up and sat heavily in the chair across the hall from them.

“He stayed with us at Julia’s apartment last night. I’ll call her and let her know that there’ll be a team heading that way. He said he hasn’t had any blood for days, and he’s not going to lie to us about this. Not with Hannah and everything. Point was just about to order him to take me up on my offer to feed him directly,” Caroline said. Her throat was tight and her voice came out strained, but she was clear enough.

“Well, I doubt that he’d hide any blood from us, especially after his emergency supply came up contaminated.” Greg said. “So how did he ingest the toxin?”

“He was fine when he left our apartment this morning. Julia sent leftovers home with him, though, so if it was in there somehow…” Caroline trailed off to a whisper and Greg gave her a squeeze.

“I can’t see Julia poisoning Darien,” he said.

“Still,” she said. “You should test everything he’s eaten. Oh, the coffee from this morning is still on his desk, and the pastries are in the bag on mine even though he didn’t eat one.” She sat up and frowned.

“Not sure why regular food would be contaminated. It’s kind of a scattershot, hope you hit something sort of method. There’s no reason to put the stuff out there willy-nilly, right? I mean, it’s not like it’ll affect a human, after all,” Greg said.

“True, but still, you’re right. If that’s all he’s eaten lately, that’s all we have to go on,” Caroline said. She sniffled and leaned her head on his shoulder.

After a moment, he pulled out his phone and called Mack to relay the suggestion. Caroline was curled close enough that she could hear both sides of the call.

“Good thinking. I’ll take their breakfast to the lab for them to start on and have the techs collect his leftovers. And I’ll call the lab team at his place and remind them to test all the regular food.” Mack said. “I don’t have Julia’s contact information, though. If you text it to me, I’ll get a team to her place, too.”

The whole atmosphere of the office was tense.

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