Revenge After Death



I looked at Steven as he turned to look at me. Neither of us said anything.

A moment later, he pointed at the woman on the second floor. "I want to take Stephie with me."

His finger was pointed to the woman upstairs, but his gaze stayed on me.

My eyes welled up with tears, but I stood still without a single word.

Nancy shot me a glance and appeared extremely confident. This was the outcome she predicted.

"As your biological mother, I have the right to send you for a psychiatric evaluation."

I stared at her for a prolonged period of time before scoffing.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

Eason and Zion looked at each other in confusion. "What's going on? What did you agree to, Stephany?"

I didn't say a word or offer an explanation.

Nancy told me that Genome Society would let Steven off the hook if I surrendered myself.

If it were up to me, I wanted Steven to spend the rest of his life in peace.

There was no fault in him for choosing the woman upstairs either.

Genome Society wanted to take back the failed experiments, and I was the most valuable one out of all of them. Hence.... they wanted to take me away.

Going with Nancy was the quickest way I could come in contact with the higher-ups in the organization. "One for one... He chose Stephanie," I tried to sound nonchalant, but I couldn't stop my voice from choking.

Joel stared at Steven for a long time before asking, "Are you sure?"

Steven shoved Joel's arm away. "She's Stephanie..."

"What about her, then?" Joel pointed toward me.

"She's just Stephany who has parts of Stephanie's memories." Steven's voice was hoarse, and he didn't look into my eyes.

I averted my gaze and laughed bitterly.

"As it turns out, all you ever wanted from the start was just the cold, unfeeling Stephanie Carlson..."

He lowered his head and said again, "I'm sorry..."

"You don't need to apologize to me." I shrugged nonchalantly. "Even if you hadn't made your decision, I'd end up doing it for you. I just want you to live well."

I just wanted him to live well... This used to be what Steven had hoped for Stephanie.

Now, my wishes aligned with his.

I just wish he'd live well and stay alive, safe and sound.

As Stephanie descended the stairs, she shot me a cold glance, as if able to detect that we carried the same DNA.

"You're nothing but a defective product..." She laughed condescendingly.

In a voice that was only soft enough for us to hear, she called me defective as she walked by.

"You end up possessing flaws and weaknesses the minute you develop feelings. When Genome Society ran tests on us again and again, we were only able to deceive everyone else if we first fooled ourselves.

"Tell me, Stephany... Did you really develop feelings? Or is this all just pretend?" She leaned in and asked in a hushed voice.

I didn't reply and only stared at her in silence.

She let out an icy laugh and approached Steven.

"Are you really willing to let her go?" she asked.

Steven took her hand. "I'm sorry it took so long for me to find you..."

"It doesn't matter to me. As long as you can keep me hidden, it doesn't matter if it's you or anyone else,' Stephanie" said emotionlessly.

Steven's fingers stiffened for a moment before he took her away.

Joel furrowed his brows and wanted to say something, but he didn't manage to get any words out in the end.

Zion didn't understand what was going on. He turned to look at me. "Come with me for now, Stephany."

I took a step forward before Nancy reached an arm out to stop me.

She flashed me a smile and swiftly lowered her arm. "I'll be waiting to hear from you."

She was confident that I'd return to look for her soon. Because now that Steven had taken "Stephanie" with him, there was no way he'd keep me around any longer.