Chapter 27

ASHLEY

{Monday, 4 days to the blood moon}

“Our goal,” Anthony Gordon said. “Is to create a superhuman. With werewolf strength, werewolf speed, and werewolf healing abilities. But without the fur.”

I touched Peter's palm, and it was too cold. “How did you know that his blood would be compatible with mine if you haven't tested him yet?” I asked.

“Well, Ashley,” he said. “Your blood is like a virus. A single drop of it in the body of a human could kill all the cells. So, we injected Peter with your blood, not enough to alter his genes and give him wolf powers, but enough to kill him if he wasn't compatible.”

“You weren't even sure he would survive! Yet you injected him?” I yelled.

“Science is about taking risks,” he said.

“Science?” I asked. “If what you are doing here is purely scientific, what connection do you have with the blood moon?”

He checked Peter’s temperature and removed the drip on his hand. “Jonathan runs Project Jericho as you know it,” he said. “I and the Chesterfields fo