Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 1121

"Yes, sir."

Gino, the steward, gave a slight nod and backed out of the room.

Corvus Thorne stood up.

He walked over to Theia Sommers' room, peering at her through the small window in the door. "Sacrificing one child to save the other six. Theia, you're a smart woman. You know what needs to be done."

The youngest child was the ultimate test subject he had been searching for.

Once he had her, he could extract her blood and genes to finally determine if the genetic modifications he performed on Theia and Silas Blackwood had been successful.

Theia, as usual, kept her head tilted back, staring blankly at the air vent.

She completely ignored the man behind her.

"If you two hadn't thought you were so clever by taking drugs to damage your own genes," Corvus continued, "a new test subject might have already been born, and my research would be complete."

"You monster."

Hearing this, Theia gritted her teeth, her voice dripping with venom.

Back when they were fleeing, terrified of being recaptured, she and Silas had ingested a substance designed to scramble their genetic sequences.

Because of that, every subsequent attempt Corvus made to use their genes to 'create' more children had failed miserably.

Therefore, Seven was his one and only hope.

"Theia, have you ever heard of Rosen's Virus?" Corvus, entirely unfazed by her hostility, asked in a slow, deliberate tone.

Theia's pupils constricted violently. Of course she knew it.

Back in Albia Country, the research institute had used that exact virus on her to force her to hand over her core data.

"She really is your daughter," Corvus remarked. "To endure multiple cycles of it within five hours without breaking... she has a high tolerance."

Upon hearing this, Theia shot up from the floor, lunging at the door and glaring at him with pure hatred. "She's just a child! And she's pregnant! Are you even human, Corvus?!"

"Theia, didn't you just say it yourself?" He met her furious gaze calmly. "I'm a monster. How could I possibly be human?"

Theia gripped the door frame so tightly her fingernails snapped, smearing blood against the metal.

"I give you my word. Hand over your youngest, and the other six will remain completely unharmed," he offered, his patience wearing thin.

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