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Chapter 402
Chapter 402:
“The development of our second-generation drug is not stopping,” June declared, her voice rising with quiet authority. “In fact, without the dead weight we just shed, we are going to move faster. I need a team. If you want to stay and make medical history, stand up p>
For three agonizing seconds, no one moved.
Then Abbie, June’s executive assistant, pushed her chair back and stood. Her eyes were shining with absolute resolve.
A second later, another researcher stood. Then another.
Within ten seconds, every single person in the conference room was on their feet. A loud, deafening wave of applause erupted, shaking the glass walls.
They were not merely staying. They were ready to go to war.
Brogan stood off to the side and watched June command the room, his chest swelling with an intense, burning pride.
The next three weeks felt like a lifetime compressed into a single, brutal siege. Apex Bio transformed into a fortress sealed off from the outside world. While June drove her new, fiercely loyal team through a grueling twenty-four-hour research cycle, the financial war raged outside their walls. Cole’s billion-dollar fund hammered their stock, creating a storm of negative press, while a carefully planted rumor about Alycia Beasley’s “miracle pregnancy” began to poison the gossip columns of New York’s elite.
The Apex Bio research and development center was a blinding island of white light in the dark Manhattan night.
June sat hunched over a high-powered electron microscope, wearing a crisp white lab coat. Her dark hair was twisted up and carelessly secured with a plastic pen. Deep shadows bruised the skin under her eyes. Her shoulders ached from the physical strain, but her eyes burned with a manic, obsessive fire.
Brogan walked through the sliding glass doors carrying two steaming paper cups of black coffee. He moved quietly to her workstation and set one cup near her elbow without a word. He simply leaned his tall frame against the metal counter and watched her.
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This had become their silent routine. He stayed every single night, anchoring her to reality while she fought the data.
The remaining team members moved frantically around the lab. Abbie had practically moved into the facility, constantly managing logistics, delivering lukewarm takeout, and fiercely guarding June’s office door so she could steal brief, fragmented hours of sleep. The betrayal of Dr. Evans had acted like a shot of adrenaline. Every person in the room was pushing their physical limits.
Suddenly, June went completely rigid.
She pulled her face away from the microscope. She spun her chair around and stared at the massive computer monitor on the adjacent desk.
Her breathing hitched. Her fingers flew across the keyboard, the keys clacking loudly in the quiet lab. She was running the final synthesis simulation.
The entire lab went dead silent. The technicians stopped moving. Everyone slowly gathered around her workstation, their hearts hammering.
The progress bar on the screen crawled forward. Ninety-eight percent. Ninety-nine percent.
One hundred.
A bright green box flashed in the center of the screen.
MATCHED.
June stared at the word. The crushing, suffocating weight that had been sitting on her chest for three weeks instantly evaporated.
A massive, brilliant, completely unfiltered smile broke across her face.