Collapse and Resolve

“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.

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

her away. “Stay

healing ability was leagues above other werewolves, it wasn’t enough to stop the

up his phone. “Get Dr. Samuel to the isolation unit–maximum

of doctors surrounded her, faces pale

there really anything we can

that he’d

Tessa’s glare swept across them like shards of ice. “You’re going to sit back

show?”

in shame, none to speak

the council’s defense squads stood guard. No one was allowed in or out. They couldn’t run even if

One woman stepped forward. Her

scornful glance at the others–backing out now was a disgrace

Tessa nodded and turned

through the prep work. Every task Tessa assigned was

10:29 Sat 2 Aug

Collapse and

head from

“I’ve extracted the pathogen.”

cyes gleamed.

in awe. “That’s incredible. The gene sequence is insanely complex. I

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

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