44 • A Strange Kind Of Love

◇ MYKAELA ◇

"Your team heard of the newest outbreak?"

"We discussed it last week." Sweaty and panting somewhat, Lorenzio stared at me as he approached the dining table which I'd been using as my study desk. "Remember that five-hour meeting with Graham and the board?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

Graham, being Zione Bio's chief scientist, headed their team of medical and pharmaceutical researchers currently based here in New York.

"The infected patients exhibit flu-like symptoms. The hospitalized ones, definitely."

Standing to my right, Enzo squinted at the books splayed open on his dark solid marble dining table. "Graham and Dr. Chen went over the most recent anecdotal reports. The Board got curious enough when Graham emailed them about it."

"Jeez. It's a strange one." I drew in a long breath as I updated the list of TBR medical journals on my tablet. "Seems highly transmissible," I muttered. Like some of my clinical professors, I'd been worrying about the most recent public health issue t