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

“Cecilia.”

I stilled.

thought

turned,

Pax Brown.

in our lab.

officially

that followed he shattered

to turn off the equipment

the time he nearly melted an expensive sensor, I couldn’t

and, for the first time in two

you should just marry a beaker.”

Pax froze.

just stared at me.

eyes turned

voice raw. “Does this

he had been waiting for this moment longer than he

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

he had done as he

long since severed

never been the real

grown up together.

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

place, maybe I would have fallen for him

my head.

this question means you still don’t understand

his sides–like he wanted to

stepped forward,

turned uneven.

it, then?” His voice was barely above a whisper. “You’re with him?”

Erike?

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