CHAPTER 14Abby became listless. And impatient. And desperate. She found a job advertised online for a virologist to help create a cure and vaccine (for what, it didn’t say), and the salary was extremely high. Abby suspected the hunters—who else would have this sort of money to pay a scientist? At first, Abby wanted nothing to do with it, but as time slowly crawled past, she turned her thoughts back to the hunters—and that job. Had saving Kenny caused the hunters to have a change of heart? Would they consider her bargain? And if they weren’t willing to do that, what then? And if they were, how could she get them to guarantee they would keep their promises? What she needed was a third party—not James, who was in it for himself—but someone who saw the benefit to both sides of this and

