My darling Maxine,

It is with a heavy heart I write you this letter, knowing that if you are reading my words now it can only mean that I am no longer here to tell them to you.

Your love has been the greatest part of my life. I need you to know that. Remember it in the years to come after I’ve gone.

These past few months, I haven’t been completely honest with you. It took all my strength to keep this secret, but I didn’t have a choice. I suspect, that if you are reading this now, Carl’s plan has worked, and I am longer here.

My company did start off small and unimportant, that much is true, but I’m the recent months, we’ve been anything but. On my trip two years ago to Peru I discovered a chemical in the soils of the mountains, one no one knew had been there, accumulating for centuries. This discovery on its own could have been insignificant, but something told me I needed to dig deeper.

I discovered that a mixture between this new organic chemical and my company’s patented compound created a magnificent new compound with radioactive properties. This new compound holds the ablility to solve some of human kinds most unanswered questions and desperate problems. What I now call compound KX271 contains radioactive properties that allow it to eat away at plastics, dissolving them into nitrogen and oxygen. The unique properties and abilities of this compound caught the eye of government agencies. They quickly took insterest and funded my research into this critical new development.

After some time, I now believe that compound KX271 may also contain a cure for cancer, stopping the uncontrolled cell division. I wanted to tell you about my remarkable discovery immediately!— but there was a dark side to the compound, much darker than even I could have imagined.

During testing phase 20119, my team of scientists made an accidental discovery. While testing the reactions of KX271 with a Hydrochloric Acid and a mixture provided by the government, a gas leak occurred in the lab. The gas leak quickly caught fire and send the lab up in flames. The remote location of the lab I have been working in for the past year is what allowed such an accident to go undetected.

Per protocol, hazmat swept the rubble before my team could excise the chemical remains; however, they found large traces of unknown nuclear particles, now known as Eta Negative Particles. These particles not only act in the same destructive manner as all weaponized nuclear chemicals do, but they also create a domino effect on the human body. They’ve created their own form of cancer; a rapidly mutating gene causing the cell division to speed up at nearly 12,000 times the normal rate of cell division. The new cells created are all deformed and partially, if at all, functional. This leads to an excruciating death over the course of only a few weeks. The muscles slowly freeze, immobilizing the person head to toe, causing them to lose even their ability to blink and swallow. Then, small tumors form in clusters just underneath the skin, causing it to rise and break, revealing the thick tumor wall. These tumors form on the forearms first, then the eyes lids, causing blindness and eventually rendering too heavy for the eye lid to hold up, thus ripping the eye lid off slowly. These tumors form in ever part of the body, accumulating on all essential and nonessential organs, decreasing their functions to critical amounts. The worst part however, in my opinion, is the formation of these tumor clusters in the blood vessels. They prevent the blood from circulating to the bodies extremedies and organs, slowly causing them to die. The first to go are always the toes and fingers; blackening and growing ice cold, they fall off a day later. This process continues as long as the patient is alive, eventually causing the loss of both arms, legs, nose, and ears among other internal organs.

This death is brutal. To think that my discovery has lead to such sickening results haunts me every night. The only comfort I have held onto this past year has been you, Maxine. Holding your hand in bed, holding your gaze, holding your warm embrace.

I kept this secret to protect you. I could bare to look you in the eyes knowing you knew what I had brought into this world.

I kept the secret. Unfortunately, not everyone did.

I suspect Carl, a chemist provided to me by one of the government agencies was the leak.

A week after the explosion and three days after our discovery of the cancer, both foreign and domestic bioterrorist organizations and individual bio-hackers came for the chemical. They wanted to capitalize on the pure satanic properties of destruction KX271 held.

These people were capable of and willing to kill to get what they wanted. They killed my dear friend and colleague Marie Toew and fellow chemist Jason Wright. The FBI ordered that I be taken into protective custody until the threat to my life was eliminated. I was instructed to keep you and the kids in the dark for your own protection. That’s why I told you I was going on another research trip. That’s why I told you the car taking me was the companies car. That’s how I explained the FBI agents as escorts to the airport.

I know this must all be coming as a shock. I never meant for any of this to get so out of control. I hope you can understand I did this all for you and our kids. I wanted them to have a better future. I wanted them to live on a planet with out pollution. God forbid they get cancer, I wanted them to have a cure. I only hope you can forgive me, and remember me as I was before this whole mess.

I’m in trusting you with this critical information because I don’t think Carl is the only one in on it. I’m pretty sure he is working with FBI agents Sou and Lang. Please Maxine, be careful. I know there is more to the conspiracy than I have unearthed. It is up to you now. To keep the secret of KX271 and its formula.

061703. Alex’s birthday. The combination to my safe hidden under two lose floor boards under our bed. Inside is the last vile of KX271 and a key to all of its power.

Be strong my love. I am with you always.

Love,

Ann