He thoughtfully stroked his salt-and-pepper beard. “You have no idea how important you are, do you?”
Kerry felt him try to slip inside her thoughts and shoved him back out. “Why don’t you tell me the old-fashioned way?”
He rubbed his temples and chuckled. “My apologies, Kerry.That was rude of me to enter your thoughts without asking. You need to teach me how to evict someone like that.” He cIeared his throat and continued. “In all the years the Eden Project has been in effect, there have been no twins. You and your brother are not the first, but the only.”
Kerry tensed. “Leave him out of this.” she said quietly.
He nodded. “All right. Kerry, you are the most powerful of us on record. There are a few close to you, but no one has ever tested higher. You were the final argument the Eden Project needed to dissolve the ectogenesis program and solely use gifted surrogates to carry this new race of children.”
Kerry stared at him in horror. “What are you saying?”
He leaned forward and gently pushed her gun away from his face. “You weren’t born here, but you were created here. We were all created here.”
“We? Who the fuck are you?”
He held out his hand. “I chose the name Seth, but I’m known better here as EDEN-1.”
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