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!"

name sounded familiar. Back when he was in the mountains, chatting with his grandma about viruses, she'd given him a list of the scientists behind the foreign virus research. Eddie Eilman

even singled Eddie out, saying he

invited your parents to live in Karl Town. A few

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

taking it all in. Finally, after all these years, the

parents had access to such a dangerous virus! They weren't doctors or scientists-in Karl Town, they were nothing more than test subjects, lab rats.

made sense. Their friend could get close-Nice, the

So he risked everything, using his father's credentials to steal the research and hand

virus and the data back home, risking their lives. Instead,

the Eilmans-father and son-died

generations. They'd lost their core scientists and all the original data.

this virus was engineered specifically for people like them. From

one- hundred-percent targeted infection. If you caught it, and didn't have the antidote, you were as good

released the eighth-generation virus on the world, foreigners wouldn't even get sick. Only people

a biological weapon designed to