Do you know how many billions of dollars in contracts we expect? How much money have we made from this? They are our prototypes. Examples of what we can make them do, how strong, fast and deadly they will be, having beaten off all competitors from Mercil. Every guy will want to buy what we made. That damn Jacob could have cost us one fine specimen. It's too valuable to risk." Ellie closed her eyes to hide her tears of relief. They won't kill the 416th. She did everything right. He may hate her for the framed murder, but he will live. Now she's left to turn in her shift and hand over the stolen evidence, and that's the only way to save the test subject. She'll help bring Mercil Industries to justice. "Hey." Dr. Brannon sighed. "Sorry. I'm talking about money when you've just had an injury

