“What is it you want and why would you expect her to tell me anything?”
“Well. You two wooed us with your dance yesterday.” I sigh in frustration, his answer is adding more questions to my head.
If he sent her to me and she is one of his women. Why is she not giving in to what he wants me to help him with? Is there a possibility that he did not send her and she doesn't work for him?
“Before that dance, I hadn't met her anywhere all my life. Is it because she accepted a dance with only me on the dance floor yesterday? That you think she will open to me on whatever it is you want from her?”
My uncle smiles with a flatter. His smile is the one he wore yesterday. That is bringing back a memory of yesterday that irritates me. The smile is making me feel a purge of jealousy building in me nonstop.
And I curse him so much in my head. Fuck him. Fuck the bastard… At the same time, I am reminded of yesterday's pain that I can't describe cutting through me. I am reminded of a memory of me standing at the bar, shaking, as I watched Keirah running away from me into my uncle's arms.
Like I was some sort of a contagious disease.
I had done something I had never done. I did the impossible yesterday in my dictionary and pleaded with her to stay with me and choose me over him for me to save her life.
But no, she chose him over me.
She chose my uncle over me.
Running up to hug my uncle lovingly in front of the world to see.
Well, she chose wrong, and now she is facing the consequences.
I shouldn't care about her.
I have already mourned her death.
It's no longer my concern.
She took all this on herself.
I am giving myself all the excuses I can come up with in my head to bring my sanity back. Anything needed to step away from this, to not ruin my plan that I have worked on for the last five years.
But nothing is working to help me out.
Something in me keeps me stuck at my uncle's office. An urge inside me that is beyond my logical reasoning and understanding tells me I am leaving this warehouse with Keirah.
And unlike all the times I stepped away unable to save the women and children dying in here. I feel it deep down in my core. That this time if I must I will die in her place. Saving Keirah will happen, even if it must be the last thing I do on this earth.
Something in me won't let me leave her here to die.
“She is so sexy...” My uncle licks his lips as he speaks to me. And that complicates things more.
I know he is doing this to trigger me, and he succeeds at it. He triggers me.
At the thought of her, her extraordinary beauty, and her innocence. And then the thought of her having sex with my uncle. Jealousness continues to build in me nonstop.
I seriously want to kill my uncle at this very moment. Fuck… What is wrong with me?
My uncle stands up and walks across to me, sitting at the table in front of me. “I didn't touch her,” he announces. And then he smiles as if aware of the jealousy that I am fighting to stop creeping up my mind.
“Not even my men will touch her. I will let you have a test of her here after you get me what I want from her.”
“And what is it you want?”
Is he playing games with me again? Wasn't it enough that she chose him over me? Is he trying to rub it in my face?
“I wanted her because she is the biomedical engineer we have been looking for.”
Oooh, Jesus…. With my uncle's unexpected announcement, I almost fell off the chair with the realization of what all this was about. I am thunderstruck with my mouth open. I did not expect our conversation to take this turn.
My uncle continues to speak in a voice filled with excitement. “I can't use the neutrophil chips until I get the coordinates, that she locked the biochips with.” Time freezes for me with the realization of what all this is about.
It has been years since my uncle was obsessed with finding the biomedical engineer who had designed the neutrophil biochips for the cure of all the terminal diseases ever known to humans.
From cancer, and dementia to HIV/AIDS, the biochips still in development would provide a complete cure for all known diseases and unknown diseases to humans.
These biochips would make use of a hundred percent or more of the human immune system with no external drugs to be administered to the body of the person who is sick.
The biochips work by using one hundred percent of the human brain compared to the less than thirty-five percent humans always use. These biochips work by tricking the body through the brain and making the body produce an appropriate immune system to attack and kill or remove anything that would make the body terminally ill.
The innovation of these first medical biochips to be implanted in the brain got the engineer a Nobel Prize.
That is how excellent the engineer is.
What interested my uncle more in all this was not about curing diseases. He doesn't give a fuck about the human or their wellbeings, his interest was because someone would remotely control the chips to make use of a hundred percent of the body's immune system to cure itself.
And that means controlling their minds and bodies involuntarily at this point. Making someone do, feel, and think what they would not have under normal circumstances. The remote-control prototype is what my uncle was dying to possess.
This is one of the biggest issues that has been disturbing my uncle. With his obsession with manufacturing dangerous, intoxicating drugs. He could never get a hold of the engineer to add this to his correction.
Even at the Nobel ceremony, they did not disclose the name of the innovator. They just honored the person behind the innovation for bringing medical chips to life.
And kept her a secret even from powerful people like my uncle.
My uncle has invested so much and has put so much effort into finding the engineer behind this. And he has been unsuccessful for years.
And by this, my uncle is telling me he got to her and this engineer is Keirah.
The new drug like Agra my uncle is going to be selling soon if he gets those codes. Will be tricking people into selling him their full mind and body control.
The children, the sick and elderly, the terminally ill. The possibility of what he will be capable of doing is infinite. Everyone will no longer be safe. His pool of the people he can directly harm will be anyone if not everyone in the world.
I lift my gaze and glance at the man in front of me. I blink calmly and turn my head to my uncle.
“Zio… do you want to tell me you plan on making a business of taking complete control of people's minds and bodies now?”
Instead of giving me an answer, he smiles widely and I wonder. Is there a limit to the evils of my uncle? “Seriously?”
I question him again in a very serious tone. “Do you want to use the biochips by reversing them and exploiting their side effects?”
I can't get my mind to accept that this is what is happening now. I am going crazy with scenarios of what will happen if he gets those codes.
One thing is for sure. She has not given up the codes. Keirah must never give him the codes. My uncle is the most dangerous serial killer I know.
What would happen if he got those codes and became a God? This complicates everything I ever imagined would happen soon. It is hell for me to stop him with the power he has now.
What will happen if he gets more power and rules the world?
James quickly stands up. And his eyes travel to the doorway hoping to see his brother and there is no one there.Then his eyes travel to Maria, but Maria has not moved an inch she is lying down in the same place that she was in, and she is still hissing in pain.He runs over to help her off the ground onto a sofa beside Baby Lana’s crib. As he helps her off the floor, she is looking at him with questioning eyes wondering. ”It was not me!”“Then who is it?”“It’s me!” A weak voice from behind them makes them turn around to see Keirah holding Don Mauro’s tablet in her hands.She raises the tablet in the air for Don Mauro to see it. And she is wearing an angry weak smile but a savage one. “I made the biochips. I know a way or two to undo them. A few codes and I have sent enough shock to shut their minds out. Did you think me stupid to show you everything?”She tries to get out of bed, but it becomes hard, and Maria motions for James to help her. James puts down Maria dashing to her side
Don Mauro’s whole body is shaking with fear. That he can’t even hold the tablet in his hand anymore. And the tablet drops off his hands falling back on Keirah’s bed.He quickly takes the baby out of Dr. Patel’s hand. Readying himself to run. “You are coming with me.” He threatens Dr. Patel.As soon as Don Mauro and Dr. Patel start moving. Dr. Fred, who has been for a while standing too close to the monitor, senses something.There is a flicker of movement that appears on the monitor. A faint but unmistakable rhythm emerges on the monitor.And just like Dr. Fred, everyone, including Don Mauro, James , Erede and Dr. Patel turn their concentration and are all looking at the monitor.It then becomes so loud something that everyone, including Maria who had lost consciousness, opens her eyes wide to the monitor.The room is in silent as their eyes widen in disbelief. Keirah’s heart begins to beat once more, and her vital signs start stabilizing.Tears of joy are on Dr. Fred, but they are al
The happy celebratory noise erupts through the tablet from the werewolves at the pack and from Erede beside James. This makes James quickly to bring back his eyes to Don Mauro’s tablet screen and he joins Erede in making the happy noise after observing how happy everyone is from Luciano’s win. To James’s surprises Don Mauro is smiling too. From the look on his face, he wanted Luciano to win. As if remembering something. His face changes into a serious murderous one. As he quickly gulps in his remaining whiskey on his bottle and throws the remaining piece of cigar on the floor putting himself together as he announces to his goons. “Time to go. We are done here. Kill everyone in here....everyone including that sleeping baby in her crib. And that unconscious woman Maria too. “I don’t want anyone in here to walk out alive. And lock the room after you are done. We need to move fast. Our job here is done. “ I need to prepare myself for my coronation speech. I don’t want to have it broa
The sound of Dr. Fred stumbling backward makes Don Mauro turn his full attention to him and by the look on Dr. Fred’s face, everyone in the room can tell.That whatever Dr. Fred is going to say is not going to be good news. There is so much panic surrounding him, and his fingers still holding Keirah’s hand that he just used to check for her pulse and any sign of breathing on her nose are trembling slightly.He swallows hard with fear written all over his face as he tries to speak, “She is dead,” he whispers, his voice barely above a hoarse murmur. “Keirah is dead.”There are painful tears on everyone all over the room except Don Mauro and his goons who all look unbothered. “That is bad. You ....” Don Mauro speaks as he motions for Dr. Patel. “Get Luciano’s dead bastard out. I want to see what the fuck that thing looks like.“It had a fight in it. What a disappointment. I thought we had a future together, I thought it had the Solana genes dominating it. And giving up was not an option.
“Yes…ME! I am going to rule over everyone from now on. Not just humans, but werewolves, too. Imagine being me.” Don Mauro laughs so hard that happy tears threaten his eyes. “See….take a look.” He raises his tablet in his hands and takes it around, showing what he is watching to everyone in the room. He is smiling happily. “I have eyes in the pack. Although I can’t get in physically. I can now see everything and use my army inside the pack. One word and I can flash out the whole pack in a blink.” On the screen of the tablet, that Don Mauro is taking around. There is a live feed of Luciano fighting with another man in a combat fight. Luciano is no longer in his white porcelain skin, and he is back to the human Luciano he has always been. Covered in his original tattoos as he fights another man. Luciano is fighting with all his might and so is the other man. When Don Mauro gets closer to his son, Erede. Erede questions him. “Who is Luciano fighting? Is that the famous Water?” “No...
James struggles to see the horror unfolding in front of him. As the pack leading doctor crumples to the ground, lifeless and betrayed. And the very loud beeping noise continues to make it to all his ears. This was not his plan. The plan was to save her. James’s fight crumbles like a fragile wall battered by an unstoppable storm. He stops moving. He stops fighting. He stops everything and stands like a statue in the goon hold. As the monitors continue beeping urgently. Informing everyone that this is the end road for Keirah. Erede, on the other hand, grips his chest, tears falling out of his eyes. “NO.. KEIRAH …NO.” He watches in disbelief, his mind struggling to comprehend the nightmare before his eyes. The scene puts him in more shock, and he is frozen in place, his senses overwhelming him. But this does not affect his father. With a cold, calculating gaze, Don Mauro surveys the room, scanning one person after the other. As if daring anyone to try him again. In his eyes, everyone