Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 790

Owen Reynolds glanced at the clock on the wall, suddenly realizing the time was completely inappropriate.

His ears turned crimson in an instant, but he maintained a serious demeanor. "Can't do it tonight, how about... tomorrow night? Is that okay?"

"Sure," Roseanne nodded.

"Are you heading to the lab tomorrow?" he asked.

"Yeah, I am."

"What time are you leaving?"

"Around eight, why?"

"Let's go together. I'll bring breakfast from that café by the campus gates. Remember you said their potato pancakes and coffee were great?"

"Sounds good, Professor. Thanks!"

"Well... it's getting late. I should head back."

"Alright."

Roseanne saw him to the door.

Owen turned back, "Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

Was it her imagination, or did he seem oddly cheerful even as he closed the door?

Once Owen was gone, Roseanne quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Next door, Owen was in a completely different state.

After getting home, he was too excited to sleep.

Cousin? Really a cousin!

Every time he thought about it, a grin spread across his face that he couldn't suppress.

By 1 a.m., still without a hint of sleep, he gave up lying in bed and got up instead.

He fired up his laptop and continued working on his research paper.

It wasn't until 3 a.m. that he finally dozed off, only to wake again before six.

he headed out to grab

8 a.m., he was knocking on Roseanne's

"Good morning, Professor."

breakfast. "Here you

Roseanne took it.

Owen nodded.

"Let's go together then?"

"Sure."

he donned his lab coat, he recalled

the lab area, there was Owen,

called, "Owen, don't overwork yourself.

on, you laid it all out yesterday and you're still denying it?"

"I'm not denying anything."

short, noticing Owen's grin that

did you go and

Owen Reynolds: "...No."

with that goofy

was all a

"Huh?"

all up,

as long as you're

let them know there's a meeting

Stoddard: "What's it about?"

explain in

everyone had

the conference room, under everyone's gaze,

hefty stack of documents.

this?" Stoddard peered over, flipping through a few pages, and then

"This is "

what's going on? You're

through more pages, realizing the stack was full of new

don't tell me you whipped all this

nodded calmly, "The last project should be wrapped up before the year's end. These are our upcoming research directions and potential new projects. Let's

the team quickly

right? Future research plans? Wow, we haven't even hit the new year

swallowed hard, "Face it,

at the stack's thickness, knowing

this many projects, we won't have a dull moment for the next two or

silent, feeling like the room had dropped into

kind of

full power and dragging everyone else into