Chapter 18

Elise saw it too. "Y-2?" Henry tossed his phone onto the conference table and raised his chin at her. "Tell me why Zara has the Y-2 formula you wrote." Elise was startled and thought it over carefully. That half-finished formula had been written back when she decided to abandon the experiment to get married, but she never got the chance to continue it. Henry had a natural gift for drug research, and Elise had assumed that even in her absence, he could continue from Y-1. She'd never paid much attention to the partial formula. It had just remained on her old laptop. As Lucas grew older, he'd used that old laptop to play a few games. Samuel had taken it abroad a few times, and it might have leaked to Zara then. Her son and husband had completely ruined everything for her. "You don't need to treat this like a catastrophe," Elise said, pointing at the phone. "It's just a half-finished formula, and it was untested when I wrote it. There's nothing impressive about it." "But she can