"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."

Though his healing ability was leagues

enough to stop the virus from

snatched up his phone. "Get Dr.

containment!"

wheeled away, a group of doctors surrounded

infected...

against this virus?"

Now that

team.

up just because you're

shards of ice. "You're going to sit back and watch this virus

think that white coat you

show?"

in shame, none to speak

guard. No one was allowed in

they wanted to. But staying

woman stepped forward. Her nametag read "Rosa." "I'll

your assistant."

at the others-backing out

profession

nodded and turned back into the

through the prep work.

handled with precision, saving time

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head from the

"I've extracted the pathogen."

eyes gleamed.

She stared at the writhing genetic strand under

gene sequence is insanely complex. I studied it

couldn't figure

borrowed from what I had," Tessa said calmly,

in his

weak point."

mention was that she'd

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