Wooing My Ex-Wife by Mr. Adeel

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 “Aside from having a funny character, he’s withdrawn, easily irritable, obsessed with research, and has zero regard for interpersonal communication skills.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.

It appears that researchers and doctors are weirdos. Wasn’t Kieran initially an oddball? After he got married, he now 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 and did not bother remarrying over the past decade, he may never amend his reclusive nature.

pair found themselves outside

“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 are

he quite liked people

give Benedict

Cedrick

Knock, knock, knock.

thrice

sign of movement in the office, nor was there the sound of someone coming to open

don’t I keep an eye here and let

the lab during work hours. He must be

greater force, he rapped the

sounded from the office. “What good would knocking do? Why won’t you say why you’re here?

the other

have already gotten an earful before

Mallory. I have something urgent to talk to you about.

the doorknob twisted with a

bleary-eyed, glaring at them. “If you come knocking again without stating your intention, Joshua, I’ll assume you’re mute. It’s a waste for you to

no attention to the admonishment as he saw his colleague as an elder who was his father’s age. Being familiar with his temperament, he thought it

in a premier laboratory in Chanaea, Professor Yortz. How could you be taking a nap during

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. “Feel free to make an anonymous report about

I meant,” Cedrick replied. “Like you, Professor Yortz, I am merely

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.

he deliberately paused before