Kael’s POV
For years, the government swore they could predict evil.
They called it Project Clean Seed — an investigation designed to identify embryos carrying the psychopath gene, the same genetic anomaly Malik Radwan was born with. They said it was the only way to prevent another m******e like the one he orchestrated.
It didn’t matter if you were weeks from giving birth or barely pregnant.
If the test marked your child’s DNA with the red stamp, there was no trial, no appeal — only a cold, clinical termination.
I was still a boy when the law passed, and I remember the protests, the riots, the women screaming in hospital corridors. They called it murder. The government called it prevention.
Then Dr. Milton Carroway took office. The man smiled for every camera, promised to "restore the
