"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."

his healing ability

wasn't enough to

"Get Dr. Samuel to the

containment!"

a group of doctors surrounded her, faces pale

infected...

against this virus?"

Now that he'd fallen, panic

team.

just because you're scared?" Tessa's glare swept

going to sit back and watch this virus

that white coat you wear

show?"

heads in shame,

squads stood guard. No one was allowed in

they wanted to.

One woman stepped forward. Her nametag

your assistant."

at the others-backing

profession

and turned

efficiently through the prep work. Every

handled with precision, saving time

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head from

"I've extracted the pathogen."

eyes gleamed.

at the writhing

sequence is insanely complex. I studied

days and couldn't

from what I had," Tessa said calmly,

had a werewolf genome map in his notes. I

weak point."

was that

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