THE PROFESSOR'S DIRTY CLAIM
Alex and Damian became the reluctant leaders of the new provisional government—symbols of survival, the collared pair who had fought through hell and emerged still holding each other.
But new threats simmered beneath the surface.
The clone program had not been fully destroyed. In the chaos of the final battle, several enhanced duplicates had escaped the labs. They were out there—looking exactly like Damian, programmed with fragments of his memories, but loyal to the old syndicate’s remnants. They moved in the shadows, gathering followers, whispering promises of a restored order.
One week after the fleet’s fall, the first clone appeared.
It walked into the provisional council meeting wearing