Chapter 246

• It took my bitch of a wife long enough to get knocked up, Raymond Tillis thought as he brooded in his study. After trying time after time, Becky finally got pregnant with his heir. No matter, it is finally done and to hell with those damn doctors that said it couldn't be done. He was still pissed at Becky for keeping him waiting the other night and for not opening the door when he demanded, but he didn't dare lay a hand on her... not while she was now carrying his son that would take over after he was gone. Instead, he sent her away to her parents' house to stay for the next year under the close eye of her family and all of their doctors. She'd receive the best prenatal and postnatal care that money could buy and he could buy it ever since he inherited everything from his deceased mentor.
• Fucking breeders... he now thought at the memory of his fallenmentor, Spence. Raymond vowed that he'd find a way to bring them down or, at the very least, punish them for what they have done. In the year since being beaten by the Prime Creature's breeders, Raymond went to work systematically exterminating those minor Creatures that he could find while at the same time cultivating business contacts, investors and political protection. Even now there was a mission about to launch with another Creature on the hit list.
• Raymond looked up at his chief of R&D, Edward Barents. As much as he would've liked to, Raymond couldn't think of the man as a doctor. One of Edward's doctorates in Genetic Engineering had been revoked as he had been caught in mutation experiments. He was just the type of man that Raymond wanted on his staff. "What can I do for you today, Ed? Did you find something new, I hope?"