From Ashes to Queen: Now I Call the Shots novel Chapter 66

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Everyone was already crowding around Micah, daydreaming about his future as a CEO.

Micah’s anxiety slowly faded.

“Alright, don’t jinx it yet. Let’s all get back to our experiments. If the professor catches us slacking off, he’ll blow a fuse.”

The others laughed and scattered.

Just then, the office door opened.

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Everyone looked up, tense and expectant, waiting for Calvin to hand out the invitation.

Then-

To their complete shock-

The professor they all respected handed the only invitation to the new girl in the lab, the youngest junior!

“Focus on your experiments. I’ll check your progress when I get back.”

Calvin was in a rare good mood, smiling as he spoke.

His lips even curled slightly at the corners.

Everyone was confused.

Micah couldn’t hold it in.

“Professor. I-”

“Mmhmm, you, yes–you keep an eye on these little troublemakers. I’ll write your recommendation letter when I return.”

That single sentence made it hard for Micah to breathe.

He was about to graduate. The professor’s recommendation letter would determine the class he could enter in life.

He couldn’t risk upsetting Calvin now.

Yes, the observation session would be a good chance to meet major figures in the field–but those people lived in their own social circles. Unless you were truly exceptional, it didn’t matter if you went or not.

He tried to rationalize and talk himself down.

But the frustration was still lodged in his chest.

He couldn’t spit it out, and he couldn’t swallow it.

“What the hell? Rebecca’s always been quiet and low–key. How did she end up getting the invitation just by whispering to the professor?”

“Isn’t it a lab rule that we prioritize graduating students for resources like this?”

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“Let’s not jump to conclusions. Maybe there’s been a misunderstanding”

“Yeah, we didn’t actually hear what Rebecca said. We’re all from the same lab. She’s even helped us get extra resources before. Let’s not stir things up.”

“Remember back when Scully was still here? After she won that award, she brought our senior brother along to a dinner in Jandale.”

“And there was that time with the visiting international expert–Scully gave her own invite to him, too “Come to think of it, ever since Rebecca arrived, all the good opportunities seem to land in her lap

“She’s the real heiress of the Joyner family. That alone is enough to make people tread lightly.”

Micah felt even more suffocated.

As they spoke, he started remembering the past.

When Scarlett was still in the lab, she always did everything she could to help him gain advantages.

More than once, she stayed up for days digging through piles of research papers just to help him find relevant material.

That’s how he’d been able to stand out so quickly.

If Scarlett was really the type to plagiarize and pretend to be the heiress, why had she worked so hard?

And if she truly had no talent, why was John so desperate to take her in as a PhD student?

Was it possible… he’d misjudged her?

The moment that thought surfaced, guilt flooded him like a tsunami.

He completely lost focus on his experiment.

“You guys monitor the data. I’m stepping out for a bit. I’ll be back soon.”

He stripped off his lab coat and left, heading toward Skycrest Labs.

He remembered that Scarlett had gotten permission from Mr. Wayne to work there.

Maybe he’d get lucky and run into her.

He had to get the truth about the plagiarism. If not, he’d lose sleep tonight.

Halfway there, he saw a crowd heading toward Darian Hall. In the throng, he thought he spotted Scarlett.”

He immediately quickened his pace to catch up.

Outside Darian Hall-

There were four entrances, each guarded by someone in a black uniform, fully armed.

A security line was set up three meters from the building.

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