After returning to the mountaintop villa, I personally made so chicken soup for Dexter.
Both Ashton and Xan ignored as they were busy playing. I ignored them as well, knowing that they couldn’t do anything much with their current abilities.
I got up to the attic and raised my brows when I looked at the keypad lock. Evidently, the two of them had sneaked up and tried to crack the code while I was away.
Unfortunately, they still couldn’t crack the password to the second door.
"Sophia." Dexter instinctively loosened the chain around his neck when he saw coming up. He had clearly locked himself in upon hearing the outside commotion.
I could handle the two rascals outside, yet a single chain couldn’t keep Dexter contained.
I knew I couldn’t truly keep him contained unless he was willing to stay.
In reality, I was also taking a gamble.
"Is your neck hurting?" I deliberately asked with raised brows.
Dexter lowered his head, looking diffident as he humd a reply.
"I’ll remove it for you." I walked over, unlocked the keypad lock behind his neck, and removed the chain. Dexter stopped my hands with his own. He softly said, "Just keep locked, Sophia."
I fell into silence for a bit before handing him the chicken noodle soup. ’Have so food. I made it myself."noveldrama
Dexter was uninterested at first but lit up upon hearing that I made it myself. He took a mouthful, looking sowhat conflicted.
I sheepishly asked, "Does it taste bad?"
Could chicken noodle soup even taste bad?
"Did you forget to put so salt, Sophia?" Dexter softly asked.
I hesitated for a mont, realizing that I had indeed forgotten so seasoning. "Just eat it like this. It’s nutritious and good for wound healing."
I felt like such a big fraud.
Dexter humd a reply before obediently finishing the entire bowl of chicken noodle soup.
I sat by the bed, feeling good just by watching him. Seeing him always made feel better.
"I’m going to et Sarah tomorrow," I said softly.
Dexter halted his actions and looked up at . ’Be careful.’
I replied, "She won’t pose any danger acting as a ntally ill person. However, she might be interested in my identity as Sophia."
I figured that Sarah would be even more desperate than Daisy to find out about the authenticity of the reincarnation project.
The reason she had quietly allowed Daisy’s reincarnation project was probably because she craved immortality herself.
"Has Eason t up with Joel yet?" Dexter asked.
I shook my head and replied, "Not yet. I want to et Joel too, so there’s no rush in that.’
Dexter held my hand before looking down sadly at his empty leg under the blanket. "I should be the one doing all this. If only I hadn’t gotten injured.*
"I should just keep you locked up, then." I frowned. He was saying such words again.
I continued, "A relationship between spouses or lovers should be mutual and reciprocated, Dexter. It’s not a one-sided effort."
I found him rather foolish when it ca to relationships. What a lovestruck fool he was
It seed like nothing would change once Dexter fell in love-that mont would beco his eternity.
I used to not believe in that, but after going through so much, I started believing him.
"All this while, I’ve been wondering who Violette’s biological father is," Dexter mused.
I was lying on his leg, letting him gently stroke my hair as he contemplated the question.
I didn’t care much for it. "The sperm bank within Geno Society is comparable to that of the sperm donation bank-it could be just anyone’s."
Dexter said, "But Violette is neither outstanding nor remarkable. She could only be considered a smart person among the ordinary. She’s neither a genius nor a top achiever in society.
"Given Violette’s age, Sarah must’ve conceived her shortly after she joined Geno Society-which is why Violette is around our age. Unless it’s through natural conception, otherwise why didn’t Sarah choose to edit Violette’s genes if it was via IVF or so experint?"
He voiced his doubts. I, too, shared the sa doubts.
It seed that there was no better reason or excuse other than being unable to do any editing on an embryo from natural conception.
"Is the identity of Violette’s father that important?" I asked softly.
Dexter nodded. "Andy went to such lengths to send Sarah into Geno Society as a sacrifice. She must have aligned herself with soone powerful in order for her to rise up from a marginalized experintal subject to be able to achieve what she has today.
"And this person should likely be Geno Society’s highest-ranking administrator of the Othard region."
He wasn’t sure if Violette’s biological father was still alive. Violette had refused to indulge, and he did not bother asking.
That was because he might not believe in her even if she told him.
"You’re right, I whispered as I slowly closed my eyes. "Since we know who our target is, we can take it slow and investigate gradually."
Dexter nodded and said, ’The closer we are to the truth, the more dangerous it is."
"I’m not afraid since you’re here." I nuzzled against his embrace, feeling so sort of security with him.
Dexter looked down at with a complicated gaze. After a while, he said, "My love for you has nothing to do with our genes, Sophia."
Human emotions were bound by genes, yet they also went beyond them.
When Dexter found out that human consciousness could exist independent of the body, he knew that his understanding of love had reached a soulful level.
His love for Sophia started with genetic attraction and stayed true to the purest emotions.
Eason called over to Lucent Peak Crematorium at 6:00 am.
They ended up at the crematorium after tracing a lead from one of Geno Society’s experints.
"There are a total of 16 crematoriums in Huma that have connections with Geno Society,’ Eason said somberly.
"Geno Society is just like a massive network. Aesthetic clinics, hospitals, various surrogacy agencies- everything that makes money is part of this network, which supports the sinister vampires behind them," he angrily said.
I looked at Eason, then turned to the dimly lit sky. "The horrors of this world are beyond our imagination.
There are so many experintal subjects and clone subjects with no identities. There are also those who went missing or kidnapped. How would you deal with them when they died?
"Geno Society has invested so much money and ti in these people. They’re not going to waste even their ashes."
Eason shivered as he said, "They’d steal and sell off organs, not even leaving their bodies and skeletons behind. Now, even their ashes are valuable.
"What’s truly chilling is that with so many people missing and unfound, their remains might even end up in the faces of those who’ve had costic surgeries. The specially-processed bones could provide support without rejection. That’s really scary
"The advancent of the dical field is supposed to benefit humankind, not to drive us to destroy each other in the shadows." Eason struggled to accept the truth behind their investigation.
The deeper the investigation went, the more chilling the truth turned out to be.
"Humans are just another type of beast. Survival of the fittest and mutual destruction have remained the sa since the dawn of age.’
Civilization might end up destroyed by itself one day if this continued.
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