Author's POV

"What is your deal? What do you want, wild animals?"

"I love it when you use the word wild. I'm wild, but I need you to give me my freedom in exchange for the cure, and if it works on him, then we let you go, and you leave and come back when we are prepared to kill you." Daniel wasn't joking; he knew that Jeremiah would want to trade his freedom for the cure, which entailed that he was the one behind it.

"So would you give up your accomplice and have him bring the cure to me so we ...