Aria's POV “I know that.”“Then how can you possibly say that?”“Because,” he said, voice low and hard, “if you give them the vaccine, they still own your name. Your patents. Your work. They still own the truth. They still own you.”I stared at him.There it was.The thing he was trying not to say out loud.He was not denying the choice existed. He was denying the shape of the trap. Or maybe trying to keep me from seeing how bad it already was.“We can find another way,” he said.The words were meant to comfort me.They did not.They made me want to cry, because I had already spent too long believing other people when they said that. We can find another way. We have time. There is still a path. Something will work out.And this time, with Leo on a timer, those words sounded dangerously close to a lie.“I need you to understand what they are asking,” I said, my voice shaking harder now. “If I say that vaccine is a bioweapon, it destroys everything. Everything. It destroys the research
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