"Are we really going to give up?" Samuel murmured, pressing a hand to his

throbbing forehead. The nonstop, high-intensity work was finally breaking even

him.

"Take an hour to rest. I'll keep watch," Tessa said, giving him a light shove. "We'll

hold out in shifts. Better than both of us dropping."

Samuel wanted to argue, but her eyes stopped him cold.

She was right, and he knew it. So he stood. "I'll relieve you in an hour."

Tessa lay down on the makeshift hospital sofa almost instantly.

and fell asleep

But not even an hour later, she jolted a deep sense of dread gripping her.

She bolted to the lab.

pounding,

The moment she opened the door, her pupils shrank in horror-Samuel had

collapsed beside the workstation, his face tinged with the sickly gray-blue hue

unique to virus infection.

"Samuel!" Tessa ran to catch him, her voice trembling.

Even an S+ level werewolf medic had fallen. This virus was far more aggressive

than they'd ever imagined.

Samuel forced his eyes open, weakly pushing her away. "Stay back... I'm

infected... Don't touch me."

was faint. Though his healing ability was leagues above

it wasn't enough to stop the virus from

"Get Dr. Samuel to

containment!"

he was wheeled away, a group of doctors surrounded

Samuel's infected... is there really anything

against this virus?"

anchor. Now that

team.

up just because you're

"You're going to sit back and

genetic future? You think that white

show?"

their heads in shame, none

defense squads stood guard. No

couldn't run even if they wanted

One woman stepped forward. Her nametag read "Rosa."

your assistant."

at the others-backing

profession stood

nodded and turned back into

efficiently through the

handled with precision, saving

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her head from the microscope.

"I've extracted the pathogen."

eyes gleamed.

She stared at the writhing

is

days and couldn't

Tessa said calmly, fingers

map in

weak point."

that she'd

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