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!"

about viruses, she'd given him a list of the scientists behind the foreign virus research. Eddie Eilman was right

grandma had even singled Eddie out, saying he was the key member

to live in Karl Town. A few years later, Nice handed over

suspected their deaths weren't just some random car crash. But I never had

Finally, after all these years, the pieces were

Town, they were nothing more than test subjects, lab rats. Test subjects

now it all made sense. Their friend could get

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

the data back home, risking their lives. Instead, they were

and son-died because of it,

base was working on was only halfway between the fourth and fifth generations. They'd lost their core scientists and all the original data. Now, a new group of

him: this virus was engineered specifically for people like them. From the first generation to the eighth, it had been refined

finished product-capable of one- hundred-percent targeted infection. If you

Only people like

This was a biological weapon designed to wipe