Chapter 20

I never thought I’d see Pax again.

But fate, it seemed, had a cruel sense of humor.

Two years later, on another Christmas Eve, as Berlin slipped into wintertime, I found myself walking through streets dusted in the season’s first snowfall. The golden glow of streetlamps flickered against frost–coated windows, the world outside hushed and serene.

Inside the lab, however, serenity was the last thing on our professor’s mind.

“This one’s going to be a handful,” she muttered, rubbing her temples in exasperation.

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Her frustration was so uncharacteristic that Erike and I exchanged amused glances.

“What’s the problem, Professor?” Erike asked, barely suppressing a grin.

“A hard case,” she sighed. “Connections. Family money. One of those. Can’t be fired, hard to manage–what a

headache.”

Then, as if resigning herself to fate, she looked between the two of us.

“So? Which one of you is going to mentor him?”

-A man, then.

1 instinctively took a full step back.

“Erike you do it.” I shook my head with mock solemnity.

“I’d hate for her to fall helplessly in love with me.”

A voice came from behind me.

heard

“Cecilia.”

I stilled.

I thought I had

when I turned,

Pax Brown.

in our

night, he officially joined

that followed he shattered

to turn off the equipment

he nearly melted an expensive sensor, I couldn’t take

and, for the first time

just marry

Pax froze.

a second, he just stared

eyes

breathed, voice raw. “Does this mean you’ve finally

waiting

every word he’d said back

had done as he

had long since severed ties with Nina.

the real problem,

had grown up

life by her side,buying her gifts. Picking her up in the dead of night.

in her place, maybe I would have fallen

shook my

you’re even asking me this question means you still

twitching at his sides–like he wanted to reach

could, Huaiyu stepped forward,

turned

it, then?” His voice was barely above a whisper.

Erike?

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