Murat's hand healing in seconds in the kitchen was for Selin and Kerem not only a miracle but the door to a terrifying unknown. Murat now viewed his own body not as a "temple" but as a dark "experiment" that needed to be solved. Kerem had decided that professional help was essential so as not to be crushed under the weight of this secret. The two tubes of fresh blood he had taken from Murat were now in the inner pocket of Kerem's jacket, beating like a time bomb against his body heat. A Dark Laboratory and Dr. Atlas Kerem went down to a basement in a nondescript grey building down a back alley of Istanbul, unmarked and anonymous. This was Dr. Atlas's secret kingdom. Dr. Atlas was a geneticist — excommunicated from the medical world for unethical experiments, devoted to money but of indis

