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“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.

S+ level werewolf medic had fallen. This virus was far more aggressive than

her away. “Stay back…

was faint. Though his healing ability was leagues above other werewolves, it wasn’t enough to stop the virus

phone. “Get Dr. Samuel

a group of doctors surrounded her, faces pale as

there really anything we can

anchor. Now that he’d fallen,

to sit back and watch this virus destroy Montedra’s genetic

show?”

their heads in

guard. No one was allowed in or out. They couldn’t run even if

forward. Her nametag read “Rosa.”

a scornful glance at the others–backing out now was

turned back

work. Every task Tessa assigned was handled with precision, saving time

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Tessa lifted her head

“I’ve extracted the pathogen.”

cyes gleamed.

at the writhing genetic strand under the lens in awe. “That’s incredible. The gene sequence is insanely complex. I

from what I had,” Tessa said calmly, fingers flying over the keyboard. “Samuel had a werewolf genome map in

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