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.

sip of water, her throat slightly hoarse. She pressed her lips together

said, “No rush. There’s still half an

I’d rather get it over

Nghe had it been ft with

hurried to stop them, asking, “Mr. Owens, Siren, what are you two going to do

moment

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 bet. They pose the questions,

conducted the experiment earlier,

could already foresee their brutal

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

curiosity. Missing this would

Owens, I’m free too. Mind if

nothing, but

to watch,”

followed, with

test paper consisting of twenty questions was

the others were clearly designed to be tricky, intentionally

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

organized the tough questions that had

feeling that if he didn’t take

merely wanted to make things difficult for Yvette, he included a question that

by Yvette, the group of four returned to the

the door opened, the people who had been writing papers or conducting experiments immediately

they saw two more people had entered–and

about why the core lab

lab space,

of them was extremely

and

by them, but they had only taken

next left everyone even more

Jay personally

and stern Marcus quietly went to the coffee station, poured a glass of orange juice, and placed it

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

chair,

with her bright eyes filled

behind her,

better might mistake Yvette for a mob

one person most familiar