Chapter 33

And they’d found it. By sheer accident, really. When natural stimulation had failed to elevate the subject’s biorhythms to easily monitored levels, he’d manufactured new stimuli. Cameron Koster’s form had been twenty-third on the list. Marco took on his shape, and her heart rate, blood pressure, and adrenaline levels all spiked. It made the most logical sense for them to continue exploiting that. At one point, Marco had raised the question about the psychological effects of forcing her to fight her partner, but Nolan upped his salary and the shifter had shut up.

If he’d had time, he might have explored the implications further. But he wasn’t a psychologist. He was an engineer. In the end, all he cared about was reproducing the shifter ability. That’s what had been sold with the contract, and getting that far had already proven difficult. He didn’t need to add more when shifters weren’t even human.