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.

of water, her throat slightly hoarse. She pressed her

There’s still half an hour left. You can

need. I’d rather get it over with.

ft with a

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

paused for a moment before waving his

some time to go over a few problems with the students. Those outside the core lab aren’t convinced of her abilities, so

Yvette had calmly and effortlessly conducted the experiment earlier, felt a pang of sympathy for the

already foresee their

chose this master? Clearly, they’ve grown too comfortable and are now

this would be a blow to his gossip–loving

free too. Mind

nothing, but his interest

“Sure, if you want to watch,” she

eagerly followed, with

the outer lab, a test paper consisting of twenty questions was

but the others were clearly designed to

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

questions that

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 for Yvette, he included a question that posed

by Yvette, the group of four returned to the outer

who had been writing papers or conducting experiments immediately paused what they were

two more people had entered–and realized who they

the core

same lab space, core members were

of them was extremely

statuses of Jay and Marcus were unmatched.

member hoped to be mentored by them, but

left everyone even more

in disbelief as Jay personally fetched

stern Marcus quietly went to the coffee station, poured a

situation escalated into new levels of shock, the

sat down on the chair, propping her

eyes filled

stood behind her, sending a chill down everyone’s

know better might mistake Yvette for a mob

person most familiar with