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!

the

tears. "I don't care why you're protecting him;

Even if those people were guilty, it should be the law that punishes

his head, his breathing shaky. He

Still so stubborn...

looked away, no longer hoping he would help me with the serial killer case.I would find out

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,

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

cops can't do anything about it; they're like sewer rats, experts at

kids, we would have

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

the moment I mentioned Zoe, Colin's

a learning disability; she won't tell you anything. Besides it's too chaotic there. It’s not safe.

that there were indeed more than a few things he was keeping from me. And then my mother's journal entries about him imprisoning, kidnapping, and abusing

if they were true or

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