"Caitlin!" Elsa exclaimed. "That's right, the winner's name was Caitlin Kensington, and she was from Eldermere!"
At this, Elsa whipped her head around to look at Caitlin, her voice filled with disbelief. "Ca-Catie, you're not... you're not the first-place winner, are you?"
Gertrude also stared at Caitlin, her face a mask of curiosity.
Caitlin smiled. "I am."
"Oh my God! Oh my God!" Elsa practically shouted.
She thought Gertrude being the city's top scorer was shocking enough.
But she never expected...
That Caitlin was the IPHO champion!
The prestige of IPHO was on a completely different level from being a city's top scorer.
Gertrude was equally stunned. She looked at Caitlin. "Catie, after winning first place in IPHO, why didn't you go to an Ivy League school abroad?"
With Caitlin's achievements, she would have been courted by every major international university.
Caitlin explained, "My family lives in The Capital, and I didn't want to be too far from them, so I chose Kingsward University."
The main reason, though, was that the food abroad was terrible.
She couldn't get used to foreign cuisine.
"That makes sense," Elsa nodded, sighing in admiration. "You two are both so amazing and so humble!"
Elsa had been quite confident in her own abilities; after all, she was always in the top three of her grade.
But now, she felt a little insecure.
Gertrude blushed at the praise. "It's nothing, really. I heard last year's top scorer in my city got a 1531. I was a full 11 points behind her. I just got lucky this year."
Eleven points might not seem like much, but in the college entrance exams, it was a huge gap.
"Catie is the really amazing one," Gertrude said. "I tried to apply for IPHO before, but I never passed the qualifying exams."
The bar for IPHO was incredibly high.
Gertrude knew her own limits.
Elsa agreed wholeheartedly. "I can't believe the IPHO champion is my roommate!"
It was surreal.
A top scorer.
An international champion.
Their dorm room was truly full of hidden talents.
"You two, stop praising me, or I'll get a big head," Caitlin said, glancing at her phone. "My boyfriend's here. I have to go."
"Where is he?" Elsa asked immediately.
Even though she knew what Caitlin's boyfriend did for a living, she still hadn't seen what he looked like.
"There," Caitlin pointed across the street. "That's him."
Gertrude and Elsa followed her gaze.
Across the street, a black car was parked. Leaning against the driver's side door was a tall, striking man in a black trench coat. He was looking down at his phone, but even from a distance, they could feel the powerful aura emanating from him.


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The readers' comments on the novel: THE DIVORCE GAMBIT From Dumped Wife to CEO's Forever
Esse três capítulos de hoje parece está faltando alguns capítulos entre eles tipo tem buracos história pula pra parte que não tem nada haver ....
Parece ter pulado alguns capítulos...
Please update... Thanks 🙏🏻...
Hi.. could you start publishing another novel as well.. the mocked miss's hidden crowns...
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Can you please publish another novel - sorry for your loss, its me am the loss...
So happy for Carey, the reunion with her family is touching. Can we read more of Caitlin and Gordon? Readers are forgetting that Caitlin has a boyfriend by the way. Is it normal for their relationship to be erased in the storyline?...
Update please......
But where is Gordon?...
Great story, great author!...