Doctors gave my six year old twins ten days to live, and for the first time in my life, every dollar, every weapon, every favor, and every ounce of power attached to my name meant absolutely nothing. 002

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Chapter 13

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"What do you want?"

"Genevieve's evidence."

"That's all?"

"And your silence."

I laughed once.

He looked offended.

"You think I'm negotiating with you?"

"Your children have hours before the immune response becomes unpredictable."

My phone vibrated.

Yates.

I answered.

His voice was strained.

"Lawson, the treatment is working, but something's wrong.

Their cells are changing too quickly."

Valez watched me.

He knew.

"What do you need?"

I asked.

"A regulator sequence.

Some kind of molecular brake."

Valez raised the drive.

I looked through the glass at Genevieve.

She shook her head.

"Don't."

"They'll die."

"He'll do it again."

My children.

Hundreds of future children.

Maybe thousands.

It was the kind of decision people imagine is easy when they are not the ones being asked to make it.

Valez stepped closer.

"Give me the evidence."

I looked at him.

Then I smiled.

"Already sent it."

For the first time, his expression changed.

"What?"

Before entering the building, Miriam had distributed Genevieve's files to six federal agencies, three newspapers, two international research watchdogs, and every board member of Helixor's surviving corporate partners.

There was nothing left to bargain with.

Valez's face twisted.

"You fool."

"Give me the drive."

"No."

Genevieve moved behind the glass.

"Father."

He turned.

She held something in her hand.

A metal injector.

Valez's eyes widened.

"No."

Genevieve drove it into a control panel beside her.

The laboratory alarms erupted.

Locks disengaged throughout the corridor.

Her glass door opened.

Valez ran toward the exit.

Miriam blocked him.

I took the drive from his hand.

I wanted to hit him.

I wanted to make him hurt.

Instead, I looked at the terrified old man and realized the cruelest thing I could give him was survival.

A courtroom.

A name.

A face.

A lifetime watching the world dismantle everything he had built.

"You're going to live long enough to explain every child you used."

Police sirens echoed above us.

Genevieve stood several feet away.

Neither of us knew what to do.

Then she whispered, "How are they?"

I couldn't answer for several seconds.

"Alive."

She covered her mouth.

"Take me to them."

The correction sequence reached Yates seventeen minutes later.

He began the regulator infusion immediately.

We returned to St.

Matthew as dawn rose over Chicago.

Genevieve stood outside the twins' room.

Her hands shook so badly she couldn't open the door.

I opened it for her.

Blythe was awake.

Weak.

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Doctors gave my six year old twins ten days to live, and for the first time in my life, every dollar, every weapon, every favor, and every ounce of power attached to my name meant absolutely nothing. 002
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