Ditched My Toxic Duo for a Billionaire Upgrade novel Chapter 44

Chapter 7

Johnson left.

Fast in, fast out.

I slept like a baby.

The next morning, I was at the airport right on time.

Just before boarding, I got a call from my old college advisor.

“Scarlett, your senior lab partner just flew back to the States today.

Got time to catch up?”

I paused.

Thought of him.

Sebastian Kane.

Cool, brilliant, composed.

I was an orphan.

Grew up in a group home on the South Side of Chicago.

Learned early that no one was coming to save me.

So I studied like my life depended on it.

Got into the best school in New York.

Picked the hardest major.

By sophomore year, I joined the university’s top research group-

Even if I was just the lab grunt.

Sebastian was the star of that lab.

He was also my first crush.

But he left for grad school abroad during junior year.

I never got the chance to say a word.

I didn’t respond right away, so my advisor kept talking.

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You and Sebastian–my two best students.”

I always thought you two were going places… then you got married.”

I bit my lip.

Felt something twist in my chest.

If I hadn’t married Johnson, maybe I’d still be in research.

That thought alone made me stop walking toward the gate.

Maybe thirty isn’t the end.

Maybe it’s a new beginning.

So I said yes.

I’d meet them for the reunion.

I headed to a quiet, run–down part of Brooklyn.

Back in college, I used to rent a tiny apartment here.

After marriage, I bought it.

It became my sanctuary.

Whenever I couldn’t breathe at the Johnson estate-

I came here.

It was small.

One bedroom, one bath.

Maybe 400 square feet.

But it was packed wall to wall with books.

I dropped my suitcase and collapsed onto the bed.

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