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.

voice I hadn’t heard in two

“Cecilia.”

I stilled.

thought I had imagined

I turned, there

Pax Brown.

in our

he officially joined our

the weeks that followed

turn off the equipment fifteen times.

an expensive sensor, I

to him and, for the first time in two years, I spoke to him

just marry a beaker.”

Pax froze.

a second, he just stared

eyes

breathed, voice raw. “Does this

like he had been waiting for this moment longer than he

had meant every word he’d said back then..

done as he promised.

long since severed

the real

grown up together.

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

maybe I would have fallen for him too.

shook my head.

fact that you’re even asking me this question means you still don’t understand me.”

at his sides–like he wanted to reach

he could, Huaiyu stepped forward, casually positioning himself between

turned

then?” His voice was barely

Erike?

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