Chapter 399

Charlene nodded quickly, then turned to York. "Sorry, I can't make it to lunch with you."

York smiled warmly. "No worries."

With that, Charlene left.

York watched her and Kenton walk away, then headed to the cafeteria for lunch on his own.

He hadn't taken a real break in quite a while.

A couple of days after he met Charlene, his official vacation finally started.

He didn't see Charlene at all during those two days.

When he got home, his family didn't realize he was on leave, so everyone was busy doing their own thing and the house was pretty much empty.

Once word got around that he was back, his friend Dalton invited him out for dinner.

Over burgers and fries at their usual diner, Kelvin Scott couldn't resist some gossip. "Honestly, I didn't expect Ms. Hawkins-you know, the one Dalton's into— to be Dr. Kevitt Smith's PhD student. That's pretty impressive, actually."

York didn't know much about the history of Al development, let alone who Kevitt Smith was.

Kelvin knew that. Truth be told, he'd only learned about Kevitt Smith thanks to Dalton anyway.

York wasn't really interested in the topic.

mind, he asked, "Between Kevitt Smith and our own

That

knew the answer. "Mr.

helped push the country's Al industry forward. The guy was basically a legend—foreign competitors were always wary of him. The way Dalton saw it, without Kenton, their country's

separate his feelings- Kenton was Kenton, Stewart was Stewart. No need to mix them

The fact that he

knew the guy, Dalton and

of the aunts, they mentioned they're trying to set you up with someone again. Looks like you won't be able to dodge those blind dates this time, now that

that age. His family had been bringing up the marriage thing

much before wasn't opposed, but didn't

But now...

lowered his

barely spent any time with his

short, and he had to rush back to the

if Charlene had already left the base

another mission, York returned to the data center, but

couple more days passed. Still no sign of

later, after another assignment, he spotted Charlene in the cafeteria, hunched

her for

and sat down across

up and smiled.

in," he said, meeting her eyes. "I didn't see you last week. I thought maybe

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