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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.

had fallen. This virus was far more aggressive than they’d ever

pushing her

above other

“Get Dr.

away, a group of doctors surrounded

is there really anything we

had been their anchor. Now that he’d fallen,

scared?” Tessa’s glare swept across them like shards of ice. “You’re going to sit back and watch this virus destroy Montedra’s genetic future? You think that

show?”

in shame,

in or out. They couldn’t

woman stepped forward. Her nametag read “Rosa.”

now was a disgrace to everything their profession stood

nodded and turned back

Every task Tessa assigned was handled with

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lifted her head from the microscope.

“I’ve extracted the pathogen.”

cyes gleamed.

incredible. The

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

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