Chapter 13 Summary

Chapter 13 begins the final day in the novel's main timeline, Monday. Marsha tells VJ to go to school, but he refuses claiming there is no longer any particular need to maintain the fazade of normalcy. Victor and VJ proceed to the lab.

Marsha follows up on the hint she received from Philip, tracking down Orlando Martinez to a warehouse signed Martinez Enterprises. She looks around, and is then met by a gang of Colombian thugs who threaten her and tell her to go home.

At VJ's secret lab, VJ intimidates and dominates Victor who temporarily plays a subordinate role to his son. Victor leaves VJ's lab and returns to his own lab, where he reviews several test results and learns that the liver cancer which killed David and Janice was undoubtedly a bio-engineered and introduced cancer-causing pathogen. Victor then meets with Marsha, and...