The room seemed to spin as I took in Officer Daniels’s words. “The suspect isn’t human?” I repeated, my mind struggling to grasp what he meant. The police officer nodded, his eyes filled with a mixture of relief and bewilderment.
“The lab found traces of a substance that’s organic but not human,” Daniels explained. “It’s… well, it’s from an animal.”
An animal? I felt a surge of confusion and a flicker of hope. If the stain wasn’t human, then maybe Nathan was innocent. But what kind of animal could hurt my daughter in such a way?
