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She stared back at hi silent His lips quirked as he nodded with a subtle gesture of approval

“They were right Mercury was erous than other Breeds within their lab His training was highly advanced, but as he grew older, he began showing signs of a phenomenon they called feral fever; other scientists na that nores It only affected adult Breeds ere closer to the animal they were enhanced with”

“The call of the wild,” she whispered “That’s what Leo calls it He says all Breeds have it to a degree”

Jonas inclined his head slowly as he grimaced

“He was barely twenty when he learned the young fe closely when he came in contact with her, had been killed She was only fifteen and sent on a mission she should have never been a part of When he was told, the Coyotes, two of them, the scientists that worked with her, weren’t exactly sympathetic Mercury had just come in from ahigh within him He killed them all, with his bare hands, before he could be restrained by the other trainers and guards”

“Sweet heaven,” she whispered She hadn’t known the details of that event “With his bare hands?”

“We have the videos of the event At one point, Mercury slammed his hand into one Coyote’s chest and ripped his heart from his body He took two bullets that should have been fatal wounds, but he kept going He tore a scientist’s head from his shoulders, the trainer” He paused and shook his head “Bare-handed, Ria, he disein running tests, they found a horh his body One they still have no name for, no idea from where it’s produced But they found a way to recess it A drug therapy that kept him calm, kept him controllable”

Ria was horrified She hadn’t known this She stared back at Jonas, sick to her sto controlled

“What did it do to him?”

Jonas steepled his fingers as he frowned thoughtfully “I asked hi in torlds An automaton With it, he lost all the exceptional senses he had tested so highly in But he wasHe had no co When he was rescued, he was slowly taken off the drug therapy, and his adjustest enforcers But still, his senses are barely better than a non-Breed’s Sense of sister when he’s tested”

Ria felt her chest tighten “And now?”

Jonas shrugged “He doesn’t talk about it much But the last tests Ely ran showed an advanced state of the feral displace therapy”

She stared at him in shock The doctor the entire Breed co so horrifying?

“Why?” she gasped in outrage “Why would she want to do that if he can control it?”

“Because she believes, based on the video from that camera”—he nodded to the ca you You didn’t see his expression before he moved to you His features seemed to shift, became more animalistic, and his eyes” He frowned