Chapter Twenty-Six Daniels looked at us intently, as if making a decision about something important. Finally, he spoke, “I’m hoping you will entertain a question in return?” At our nods he continued, “After all these years, why are you really interested in Alcore and GenTech?” I looked at Leah, and she bobbed her head in the affirmative—we could trust Daniels with the truth. “My interest lies with Martin Singer, a former scientist at GenTech and Alison Anders, a researcher at Alcore. I recently learned they were my birth parents,” I paused before Leah and I proceeded to give him the Reader’s Digest version of the past several weeks. When we were finished, he was unnervingly quiet for a long while. “Interesting. That definitely changes things.” He reached forward and dug through his file

