The Mistress
“You’re using a fake medical theory to terrorize a four-year-old. Have you fallen that low?”
“Fake?” Julian stood up, walking toward a silver tray on the bar. He picked up a weathered, yellowed envelope. “My mother, Beatrice, wasn’t just a designer, Victoria. She was a scholar of the family’s secrets. She kept a private log of the genetic markers Silas was obsessed with. This envelope contains the ‘cure’—the actual genomic sequence that proves the ‘decay’ is a recessive trait that can be suppressed with the right treatment. Treatment only I possess.”