Chapter 348

"Where does that leave Phoebe?" Finn repeated the question I'd asked earlier.

If no one is innocent, what about Phoebe?

"She..." Colin's grip on my hand was trembling. "She's the key, the subject of the genetic editing experiments, the smoking gun that should be displayed in a glass case, so..."

So someone killed me.

I let out a bitter chuckle. My genes were tampered with, I was conceived, I was born—how is that my fault?

Why should I be mercilessly killed, exploited by everyone?

I struggled to break free from Colin's grasp, but he held on tight, his voice hoarse with pleading. "Phoebe..."

Every time I got upset, he'd do this. But I'd been murdered!

to let the person behind it all

will find the serial killer behind it all!" I declared, my eyes welling up with tears. "I don't care why you're protecting him; I can't let him kill everyone

were guilty, it should be

his breathing shaky. He still wouldn't explain

Still so stubborn...

looked away, no longer hoping he would help me with the serial killer

hard for us to pin anything down," Finn sighed. "On the other hand, the body parts case has led us to human trafficking. We suspect that those 'natural' geniuses are being sold as gene carriers, and might even be facing a worse kind of hell. We have to find them as quickly

have to find those innocent geniuses first. They might be used as breeding tools, genetic carriers, sperm and egg banks, or worse... drained

cops can't do anything about

the missing kids, we would have

Carter's sister," I suddenly remembered. Zoe lived in that

Zoe, Colin's expression changed

learning disability; she won't tell you anything. Besides it's too chaotic

he was keeping from me. And then my mother's journal entries about him imprisoning, kidnapping,

tell if they were true

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