Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 810

“At Boundless Lab, you'll have your own workstation. You can propose your own projects, and, over time, even build your own research team."

"I'm inviting you—not to steer your research in a new direction or force you to fit our agenda."

"My offer is to give you a better environment and greater resources, so you can pursue your original scientific path-and go farther and wider than you ever imagined."

"Of course," Roseanne paused, "I'm not some saint, handing out favors without expecting anything in return."

There it was.

The question Carlson cared about most-finally, it had arrived.

His gaze sharpened, as if he wanted to see straight into Roseanne's soul. "So what's in it for you?"

"If you agree to join us, your research remains yours," she replied. "But it'll be credited under the lab's name. That benefits both reputation and funding."

For any lab-especially one that hopes to grow and make a name for itself in the scientific world-academic output is everything.

quantity, but quality too.

ours. That's exactly the opportunity Boundless Lab needs to

keep pushing your work forward. The lab needs your strengths to broaden

important point of all." Roseanne looked him straight in the eye, enunciating every word. "In one of your papers, you quoted something

that matters, but what you do with

funding. If I keep it all to myself, it's just a cold building and something to brag about. But if I share some of it with you, what comes out could

Now, for yours-You have talent, you work hard, you've already built a foundation, and now I'm handing you an olive branch, if you tum your back on science and settle for just another job, you'll be nothing more

where they belong and seize the opportunity I'm offering, you could become a project leader, a biologist, a young scholar. You could join the National Academy, become a research fellow, a

in front of

Mamie watched

move through life one careful step at a time—until

like, what it meant to have a

a lighthouse and a

lighthouse gave you direction. Sunshine warmed

and

half a minute, before Carlson