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And Many Rabies Shots Ensued
The hospital had kept Sebastian a few days, pumping him full of vaccines and antibiotics and watching him like a lab rat. None of the doctors had treated a tiger mauling, and the fact that he’d spent a not-insubstantial amount of time lying in a ditch afterwards certainly didn’t help matters. Clearly, they’d decided not to take any chances.
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A Series of Spectacular Decisions
Derek Chapman’s plan to cut Moran out of the deal and sell the tiger himself had stalled on a logistical problem—namely, that Toby Wright’s van didn’t have a ramp.
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The Impounded Tiger
A security door marked the divide between the waiting room and the staff-only areas of the building; beyond it lay a maze of white-painted cinder block hallways, lined with animal pens. There was a dedicated wing for cats, another for dogs, and so on—but what drew Sebastian’s attention was the one marked “Dangerous Animals.”
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You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Derek Chapman was having an awful evening. He’d won a few seconds of the host’s time upon his arrival, but that had ended quickly as Clarke turned his attention toward the next guest to arrive. Now Chapman wandered the parlour, wine glass in hand, hovering at the edge of one conversation for a few minutes before moving on to the next. The other guests barely noticed him.
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Breaking and Entering
Instinct jolted him to full awareness, while years of military training had him reaching for the knife he’d stashed beneath the mattress—a nine-inch Bowie knife which was fantastically illegal to carry on the streets and therefore had to be kept in the house. Creeping silently through the flat to his front door, knife tucked close to his forearm in a reverse grip, he put his eye to the peephole.