I giggled out loud when he bled out from the knife in his chest and didn't know why he was about to pass out.

Hehe, thank you. As you said, Gene's perfection was his flaw and without the ability to feel pain, he lacked unserstanding about his own biology, which of course John clued in on :D

This was fun, yet taxing to write. I'm thrilled a fellow action writer enjoyed it :D