Silver Bullet Bear (Paranormal Shifter Romance (The Agency Book 3) by Amelia Jade

this is the first time I think I’ve chased them, instead of it being the other way around,” he told her conversationally. His voice was light, but his eyes were locked on the road in front of them as he tried to keep the sedan in sight, despite the traffic in the city.
    “Them?” Hannah asked, turning to look at him.
    “Yeah, them. The Agency, the guys conducting the war on shifters here in the city.”
    “You mean to tell me that the men who have my brother are the same ones who you’ve been trying to prevent from conducting a wholesale slaughter of shifters?”
    “Yeah,” he said angrily, though it was directed at his foes, not Hannah. “That’s them.”
    Her spine straightened.
    “We have to get him,” she urged.
    “We will,” Josh told her, slipping out from behind one car into oncoming traffic, just dodging back into his own lane in time, having closed the distance by two car lengths with his crazy maneuver.
    “Tell me more about this ‘Agency.’ Why are they such a threat? I thought you shifters could do just about anything?”
    There was a decided edge to her voice, which surprised him. He wouldn’t have pegged Hannah as one to have any anti-shifter sentiments, especially considering what her brother did for a living.
    There’s more to it than that. Maybe a shifter broke her heart once?
    Josh was surprised at the rage that welled up from his bear at that thought. It roared angrily inside his head, wanting to hurt whoever had done such a thing to her.
    “They’re well funded, well organized,” he explained. “They also have benefited from some mad science.” He pondered how much to tell her. If he explained everything, it would make its way to her brother eventually.
    “What kind of science?”
    Josh licked his lips, still considering his answer. “I’m not sure I should tell you,” he explained. “If I do, your brother won’t be able to refrain from trying to spin it to his advantage.”
    Hannah snorted, then jerked forward as Josh was forced to slam on the brakes, avoiding a near-accident before picking up speed once more. Up ahead he could see the sedan fly through a red light and take a left, narrowly avoiding being T-boned by an oncoming car.
    “Contrary to what you might think, I can keep things from him,” she said as they followed the car through the turn. The light had become an advanced green, making it easier for them to gain ground.
    “Very well,” he said, relenting without much argument. “The Agency has somehow managed to derive a serum that, if injected into a half-breed human, will grant them all of the abilities of a shifter, except one.”
    Hannah looked at him sharply. “Which one?” she asked intently.
    “Shapeshifting,” he replied without hesitation, deciding against mentioning how Madison had taken two types of the formula, which had granted her the ability to shapeshift. “Everything else will manifest, though. Faster healing, increased strength and reaction time. Everything.”
    Hannah swore. “How do they make such a thing?” she asked, stunned by his revelation.
    Josh grimaced unhappily. “They drain all the blood from a shifter, and then do something with it. We don’t know what, but it requires a lot of blood in a very short period of time. That’s all we’ve been able to discover.”
    She gasped, horrified. “That’s why they’ve been going after all the shifters here, isn’t it? It’s not because they want to kill them, but they want their powers!”
    Her hands trembled so violently Josh could see it despite his focus on the road. He longed to reach out and reassure her, but he couldn’t. Something about his touch seemed to set her off. He wasn’t positive about it, but that was the only thing he could come up with that would have made her flee from the restaurant the day before.
    “Exactly. Trust me, the men they inject it into aren’t exactly the peaceful sort either. If they get enough of them, there will be open warfare, not