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dimmed then sparked with anger, and it had only made him fucking hotter. Thankfully, Logan had sent her back to the cabin and away from Gideon. He’d needed the time to calm his beast and gain control. He’d known instantly that he had to stay away from her even though his beast roared in disagreement. Tah had agreed during their brief conversation, and Gideon had been able to avoid her since arriving. He knew he was on borrowed time, though. She didn’t come across as one who easily backed down, and damned if that didn’t make him want her more.
    “Well, if it isn’t the devil himself.”
    Tah’s mate, Abby, entered with a grin. Though her words were thrown at him, she headed straight to her little girl as if pulled by an imaginary string. The love she felt seemed to surround her, and the sweet scent of it filled the room. Her energy crackled in the air as she turned the full wattage of her smile toward him.
    “I’d tell you to watch out, but I get the impression not much scares you,” Abby said.
    “The devil,” he commented, rolling the word around in his mouth. “I’ve been called much worse I assure you.”
    Clara snorted a laugh.
    “Oh my God! What’s that?” Diane asked at his side.
    Gideon turned once more to view the computer screen and felt Abby move to his other side.
    “This is what I had it run,” Gideon said.
    “But what does all this mean?” Diane asked.
    “You’re running new tests?” Abby asked at the same time.
    “Gideon rewrote some of the code,” Diane answered. “He said we were searching for the wrong things.”
    Abby took him by surprise when she threw herself against him and hugged him. “I’m so glad you’re here,” she gushed. “Now, like Diane said, what the hell does it all mean?”
    He stared at her warily until she backed up an inch, but if anything, it only made her grin wider.
    “The tests you run repeatedly are on four main blood samples, but you waste time running them independently. I labeled them A, B, C and D for this particular test since I wanted to run them against each other simultaneously.” He pointed to a line of data. “This is where you see the feral virus show up in all four samples. This one is lighter as it is weakest in subject A. Subject B has the strongest dosage. And samples C and D are showing similar readings.”
    He moved down and pointed at another spot. “Here is where you see the results pitted only against previous blood samples from the same subject. This shows that while the virus is weakest in A, it is newly introduced and will continue to grow.”
    “That’s you,” Diane said, and Gideon nodded.
    “I’m subject A. Subject B has the strongest, but the virus is decreasing. I’d say within a few weeks, he’ll return to normal.”
    “Logan?” Clara asked.
    “Zane,” Gideon answered.
    “Now subjects C and D are both maintaining similar levels of the virus in their systems,” Gideon said.
    “Wait! What?” Clara asked. “Which one is Logan?”
    “Will this test even work on Logan?” Diane asked. “He’s fully human?”
    Clara and Logan were closer now, peering over his shoulder at the screen.
    “It will,” he said, giving them a strange look. Were they really that clueless? “Logan is D. C belongs to F. Dockery,” Gideon said as he skimmed through the rest of the information.
    “That’s Finn,” Diane said. “Why is Logan maintaining a steady level of the virus? It should be flushing out of his system faster. There’s nothing for it to attach to in him.”
    Gideon shook his head. “The dormant shifter DNA in his blood will keep it steady until he either merges with his beast or something else changes.”
    “Dormant shifter DNA?” Logan said. “There are no shifters in my family.”
    “Your DNA says otherwise,” Gideon stated.
    “Wait a minute,” Diane argued. “The Professor and I looked. We saw nothing in his blood that made us think he was anything but human.”
    “Hey, I’m right here,” Logan