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.

S+ level werewolf medic had fallen. This virus was far more aggressive than they’d ever

forced his eyes open, weakly pushing her away. “Stay back… I’m

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

phone. “Get Dr. Samuel to

was wheeled away, a group of doctors

Samuel’s infected… is there really anything

Now that he’d fallen,

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

show?”

doctors lowered their heads in shame, none

out. They couldn’t run even if they wanted to. But staying meant

forward. Her nametag read “Rosa.” “I’ll be

out now was a disgrace to everything

and turned back into

prep work. Every task Tessa assigned

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head from the microscope.

“I’ve extracted the pathogen.”

cyes gleamed.

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

what I had,” Tessa said calmly, fingers flying over the keyboard. “Samuel had a werewolf genome map in his notes. I used it to

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