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 I

when I turned,

Pax Brown.

in our

officially

in the weeks that followed

off the equipment fifteen

expensive sensor, I couldn’t take

first time in two years, I

just

Pax froze.

a second, he just stared

his eyes

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

waiting for this moment longer

every word he’d said back

he had done as he

long since

the real

had grown

her side,buying her gifts. Picking her up in

maybe I would have fallen for him too.

shook my head.

even asking me this question means you still don’t understand

hitched, his fingers twitching at his sides–like he wanted

before he could, Huaiyu stepped forward, casually positioning himself

turned uneven.

voice was barely

Erike?

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