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!"

mountains, chatting with his grandma about viruses, she'd given him a list of the scientists

saying he was the key member

Karl Town. A few years later, Nice handed over his father's

just some random car crash. But I never had

all in. Finally, after all these years, the pieces

they

all made sense. Their friend

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

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

Eilmans-father and son-died because

why the new virus the base was working on was only halfway between the fourth and fifth generations. They'd lost their core scientists and all the original data.

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

eighth-generation virus was the finished product-capable of one- hundred-percent targeted infection. If you caught it, and didn't have the antidote, you were as good as

eighth-generation virus on the world, foreigners wouldn't even get sick. Only people like Tarquin and his family would be infected. No one would be spared—one hundred

exaggeration. This was a biological weapon