Hitched & Hitched Again: A Comedy of Marital Mayhem

Chapter 1361

Tarquin: "_"

Lucian leaned forward, his voice gentle but serious. "Tarquin, do you know why your parents went to Karl Town all those years ago?"

"...I don't."

"Your dad had a close friend from overseas. Very secretive guy. His name was Nice Eilman. He worked at a local newspaper in Karl Town. It was Nice who got your parents out there."

Tarquin frowned slightly. "Nice..."

"You recognize the name?"

"It rings a bell."

Lucian nodded. "You probably know his father. Nice himself wasn't famous, but his dad-Eddie Eilman-was a world-renowned biologist from Alerasia."

Tarquin's eyes widened in realization. "Oh!"

chatting with his grandma about viruses, she'd given

he was the key member of his

"I don't know every detail, but I do know that Nice invited your parents to live in Karl Town. A few years later, Nice handed over his father's research to them. Not long after that, your

always suspected their deaths weren't just some random car

silent, taking it all in. Finally, after all these

They weren't doctors or scientists-in Karl Town, they were nothing more than test subjects,

sense. Their friend could get

how dangerous the virus was. So he risked everything, using his father's credentials to steal the research and hand

tried to smuggle the virus and the data back home, risking their

Eilmans-father and son-died

the base was working on was only halfway between the fourth and fifth generations. They'd lost their core scientists

virus was engineered specifically for people like them. From the first generation to the

the finished product-capable of one- hundred-percent targeted infection. If you caught it, and didn't have the

even get sick. Only people like Tarquin and his family would be infected. No one would be spared—one hundred percent infection

an exaggeration. This was a biological weapon designed to wipe