The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

Chapter 685

Joshua noticed Cedrick’s unusually stern expression. “What’s on your mind, Cedrick?”

Cedrick was staring at the cover of the book, Abnormal Psychology, and thinking about what Benedict had said to him earlier in the ward.

“Benny told me a professor in the lab gave it to him, so I came to ask you since you were with him the most. Who else spends that much time with him?”

He wanted to know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate act to give a five-year-old child something so disturbing.

“I’ll look into it,” Joshua promised. “I wouldn’t be too worried, though, Cedrick. It must have been a coincidence.”

Cedrick nodded.

Five minutes later, Joshua found out from the professors on duty in the laboratory that it was given by a biochemist named Eugene Yortz.

Eugene was an elderly professor of about sixty, with a snow-white beard, a straight nose, and chiseled features.

He was not Chanaean. Instead, he was sent from Astoria as part of a collaborative project.

Joshua led Cedrick to Eugene’s office to pay the professor a visit.

“Eugene is a strange fellow,” he warned Cedrick in a whisper along the way. “Aside from having a funny character, he’s withdrawn, easily irritable, obsessed with research, and has zero regard for interpersonal communication skills. The things he does sometimes are bizarre.”

Behind his back, the other professors called him Professor Nuts.

After listening intently, Cedrick mulled it over for a while.

shares a stable and loving relationship with Inez. Compared to the earlier version of himself who had devoted his life to research, he seemed to have become an entirely different person. However, Eugene is different. He is sixty years of age. Having had enough of his eccentricity, his ex-wife left him long ago. As he has no children

thinking, the pair found themselves outside Eugene’s

door, Joshua repeated gingerly, “Try not to be too blunt when you speak to him, Cedrick. He’s a man who never flatters anyone. He does what he wants and speaks his mind when something displeases him. He doesn’t care who you

he quite liked people

that give Benedict as strange a journal as Abnormal

eyes, Cedrick knocked on

Knock, knock, knock.

thrice in

in the office, nor was there the sound of someone coming

keep an eye here and

leave the lab

force, he rapped

good would knocking do? Why won’t you say why you’re here? Your mouth is not something you use

on the

have already gotten an earful

at Cedrick and cleared his throat. “This is Prof. Mallory. I have something urgent to talk to

a moment’s silence, the doorknob twisted with

again without stating your

as he saw his colleague as an elder who was his father’s age. Being familiar with his temperament, he thought it

Cedrick said, “You work in a premier laboratory in Chanaea, Professor Yortz. How could you be taking a

turned to Cedrick and scanned him up and down before fixating his gaze on his face. “I opened the door like you wanted, and you’re telling me off,” he said huffily.

not what I meant,” Cedrick replied. “Like you, Professor Yortz,

at Cedrick. “I know who you are. You look a lot like the boy in the lab ward, the one who has the S404 RNA virus in him.

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