Chapter 5
The Florence Scientific building was never totally vacant, and that didn’t include token security either. There were too many animals and too many projects in progress, but Saturdays were definitely slacker than the work week. After blowing off Friday, I needed to check on a few of the monkeys and take a look at the blood work Emily had run on them. We were trying to maintain a fixed level of drug 384AZ in the monkeys, high enough to have the desired results but below toxicity levels. We’d lost one to an unexpected kidney problem a few weeks ago.
Brendan shepherded me into the building.
“This is gonna take a couple of hours,” I said.
He tapped the laptop case in his hand. “I still have more entries to read through. I didn’t get them done last night.” He smirked a little.
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