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And who did they get to take over?

None other than Leith Pierre.

Poppy suspected foul play, but she had no proof.

And right now, she had bigger things to worry about.

Because with the Smiling Critters fiasco, Leith had to find the company's next big thing and fail.

fast and his focus immediately turned to her the living breathing clone of a girl that everyone thought was dead now he would come and visit her to observe her but he never treated her like a person she was just a thing to him she would hear him muttering to himself if i can figure out how elliott did this and mass produce it it would make

All of us.

A lot of money.

The only problem is, Elliot was dead, and the only people who had helped out with the project were kids from the Young Geniuses program, all of whom Poppy hadn't seen around the factory for a long time.

Clearly, they'd all moved on, so she figured she was safe.

Leith wouldn't be deterred so easily.

She noticed a new man around the factory, Gerard Lockhart, a private investigator, and she'd see him talking to Leith.

a lot.

She'd come to learn that he was tasked with finding these people, and that they'd reached out to one of them who looked promising.

And one day, while she was snooping around the facility, she saw Leith sitting down with someone new.

Her eyes widened.

This was the man her father had warned her about, the one who lacked humanity in his research.

But maybe it's okay.

Maybe her father had succeeded.

Maybe all of these years away had helped him.