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.

hadn’t heard

“Cecilia.”

I stilled.

moment, I thought

when I turned, there he

Pax Brown.

in our

he officially joined

followed he

the

melted an expensive sensor, I

to him and, for the first time

just marry a beaker.”

Pax froze.

just

eyes turned

“Does this mean you’ve

looked at me like he had been waiting for this moment longer

he had meant every word he’d said

he had done as

long since severed ties with Nina.

that had never been the real problem, had

grown

by her side,buying her gifts.

been in her place, maybe I would have fallen for

shook my head.

this question means you still don’t understand me.”

fingers twitching at his

could, Huaiyu stepped forward,

turned uneven.

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

Erike?

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