Masked In Nobility: Secrets Of Mrs. Chavez by Selina Gorges

Jay swallowed hard and lifted his head.

He pointed to Yvette, who was sitting, and asked in a shaky, stunned voice, “Marcus, how many methods can be used to verify Experiment No. 1?”

Marcus, his face serious, held up three fingers. “Three. After five years of repeated experiments, we’ve determined there are only three methods.”

Jay wiped the sweat from his brow and shook his head. “No, Marcus, there are five.”

Marcus stood frozen, looking at the excited expression on Jay’s face.

He seemed to have guessed what was going on, and the thought made him feel disoriented.

“In just half an hour, Siren came up with two more methods?” asked Marcus.

Jay looked into Marcus’s eyes, blinked, and swallowed again.

Then he replied, “Yes, at first it was just one, but then during the experiment, another method was discovered.”

Marcus suddenly turned his head, looking at Yvette, who sat with her legs crossed, calmly sipping water.

He finally understood what James meant when he said, “Some people are just born gifted.”

He and Jay were regarded as geniuses out of reach.

But today, he truly grasped the meaning of an unmatched genius.

Completing an experiment in half an hour was already an incredible feat.

Discovering new methods during the experiment and actually succeeding was terrifying.

to recruit Yvette, even Marcus finally understood why the director had gone to such great lengths considering dropping everything to fly to Seacrity.

He used to think the effort was excessive, but now he realized how shortsighted he had been.

Any remaining doubts Marcus had about Yvette being Siren vanished completely.

If he had been even slightly unsure before, now he was 100% convinced.

James overheard their conversation.

He knew that the news of five solutions to Experiment No. I would surely create quite a stir in the physies community.

took another sip of water, her throat slightly hoarse. She pressed her lips together and said in a

half an hour

I’d rather get it over with.

been ft with a wave of affection.

to leave, hurried to stop them, asking, “Mr. Owens, Siren,

moment before

he said, “Nothing major. I wanted Yvette to take some time to go over a few problems with the students. Those outside the core lab aren’t convinced of her abilities, so they made a

and effortlessly conducted the experiment earlier,

already foresee their brutal

could they possibly challenge? Of all people, they chose this master? Clearly, they’ve grown too comfortable and

eyes sparkled with curiosity. Missing this would be a blow

free too. Mind

beside him, said nothing,

didn’t care. “Sure, if you want to watch,” she said, before heading out

followed, with

the outer lab, a test paper consisting of

question was relatively standard and simple, but the others were clearly designed to be tricky, intentionally

standard: it was Spencer, who had made the bet with

tough questions that had troubled him for a

had a feeling that if he didn’t take this seriously, he might regret it

unlike the others who merely wanted to make things difficult

of four returned to the outer

people who had been writing papers or conducting

they saw two more people had entered–and

the core lab members were

space, core members

them

Jay and

by them, but they had only taken on a handful

left everyone

personally fetched a soft chair

shocking was that the ever–stoic and stern Marcus quietly went to the coffee station, poured a glass of orange juice, and placed it on the desk next to

the situation escalated into new levels of shock, the outer lab members were left in

chair, propping

scanned the room with her bright eyes filled with coldness,

Marcus, wearing serious expressions, stood behind her, sending a chill down

might mistake

person most familiar with this scene was