The Heiress He UnderestimatedChapter 59
The Heiress He Underestimated
Chapter 59
Chapter 59 The Baited LineFinishedThe call from Aunt Margaret came early the next morning, while Elera was wrist–deep in a sterile glove box, carefully pipetting a solution of synthesized enzymes into a petri dish containing a culture of Drakonius’s modified cells. The new cellular integration was showing promise. The growth was cleaner, more organized. It was a small victory, but in the war she was fighting, it felt like the turning of a tide.Her personal phone, set to silent but not off, buzzed against the stainless steel counter with a specific, persistent pattern. A family call. Not her father–she had him blocked. This was the old landline number from her aunt’s house in the leafy, quiet suburbs.Elera felt a pang of something complicated. Guilt, maybe. Margaret was kind in a fluttery, ineffectual way. She had been the one to give Elera beautifully illustrated anatomy books for Christmas when she was twelve, while her father gave her pearls. She was the only relative who had ever seemed to look at her and see a person, not a accessory,She pulled off her gloves, washed her hands meticulously, and stepped out of the lab’s clean zone before answering.“Aunt Margaret?”
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