Shadows Between Us (Stella and Sebastian) novel Chapter 124

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Zack asked, “Mr. Gray?” Zack, trailed by a crowd, peered curiously at the car when Sebastian didn’t step out. But with those tinted bulletproof windows, there was no way to see inside.

Celia was starting to get impatient. She was about to reach for the car door when Jake held out his hand to stop her.

Jake flashed a smile and said, “Ms. York, that’s not really appropriate.”

“Mr. Gray still hasn’t come out. Is something up?” Celia asked, fiddled with her fingers, trying to sound calm, though inside she was itching to get to Conrad’s lecture. She forced herself to wait.

Jake paused, thinking it over. He replied, “Maybe?”

Celia fell silent.

Another half minute passed, and Zack couldn’t take it anymore. He shot Jake a pitiful look.

Jake was speechless.

‘This old geezer is so ugly,’ Jake thought.

After a moment’s hesitation, Jake finally raised his hand and knocked on the window.

With several knocks, the next second, the window rolled down, and everyone could finally see inside.

And when the scene inside came into view, everyone was stunned.

Everyone remembered Sebastian as the cold, unpredictable, and downright scary guy. But right now, he was sitting there, expressionless, clumsily fixing the girl’s hair.

And honestly, he was pretty clumsy at it.

Sebastian shot a cold look at the people outside and said, “Just wait.”

The window rolled up again.

Everyone went dead silent, not daring to make a sound.

Only Jake looked totally unfazed, like he’d seen this kind of thing a hundred times before.

Celia’s face fell. She thought, ‘So Mr. Gray made all these people wait outside just because he’s busy doing that Stella girl’s hair? That’s it? This is just absurd.’

After a long, heavy silence, the door opened. The first thing to hit the ground was a pair of white sneakers. As Stella stepped out, everyone couldn’t help but sneak a look at her hair, their faces full of complicated

emotions.

‘Did Sebastian really butcher my hair like this?’ Stella thought, totally stunned.

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She turned her head, catching her reflection in the car window. It wasn’t exactly ugly, just kind of loose and sloppy, obviously the kind of hairdo from someone who barely knew what they were doing.

On the other side, Sebastian got out, sitting in his black wheelchair, giving off a cold vibe as John pushed him. along.

“Mr. Gray, you’re here,” Zack said. He rushed over, a bunch of school bigwigs trailing behind. Jake stepped up, making sure to keep some space between them.

“Stella,” Sebastian called, his eyes skipping right past Zack and locking onto Stella.

Stella strolled over with one hand in her pocket, moving with a laid-back swagger.

“Senior year. You handle the class,” Sebastian said, his voice icy as he turned to Zack. To everyone else, it sounded more like an order than a request.

“Understood,” Zack replied and nodded quickly. Then, as if remembering something, he asked, “Do you need a dorm room?”

At that, Sebastian glanced over at Stella.

“No,” Stella said, her tone frosty.

Her voice was cold and distant.

But that was enough to put Sebastian at ease.

“Mr. Gray, Dr. Conrad, and his team are lecturing in the auditorium now. Would you like to attend?” Zack said. He didn’t even get to finish before Sebastian shot him a cold, piercing look, and he quickly swallowed the rest of his words.

Celia, reduced to a total background character, kept glancing at her watch, growing more anxious by the second.

Inside, she was getting desperate.

Suddenly, Stella lazily raised her hand and poked Sebastian. She said, “Let’s go check it out.”

Everyone was speechless.

“To the auditorium,” Sebastian said, barely moving his lips as the icy vibe around him faded.

Zack was speechless.

Inside the auditorium, every seat was taken.

Conrad stood at the front, writing out a complicated math problem on the board. The long formulas and numbers looked like a puzzle, and the students below were completely silent, hanging on his every move.

Conrad was in his forties, dressed in a deep brown suit. His hair was slicked back, and he wore gold-rimmed glasses, giving him an air of sophistication and knowledge.

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“I’m Conrad, but most people just call me Dr. Conrad,” Conrad said with a smile, turning to face the audience. “Today, I’m honored to bring my team here to Edenbury Academy to share our work with you.”

As soon as he finished, the applause thundered through the auditorium. The students stared up at him, their eyes full of admiration.

In the corner, Stella lounged next to Sebastian, her gaze drifting past Conrad to the chalkboard behind him. She stared at the math problem, her. face completely expressionless.

“As you know, my team has made key breakthroughs in domestic chip research, and will soon launch our first home smart robot, v1.0,” Conrad said, beginning to present his team’s work, but below, an elderly man in a traditional suit sneered.

Standing in the same corner, Celia watched Conrad and his team on stage, her eyes wide with awe.

He said, “This problem behind me has challenged top universities for years. Only my team solved it. If anyone here can solve it before the semester ends, I guarantee admission to those top universities and a spot on my team.”

As soon as Conrad said that, the crowd went wild.

It was like the whole auditorium blew up, everyone buzzing with excitement.

Celia was so hyped she instinctively stepped forward, her eyes practically sparkling with excitement.

Students rushed up to the stage one after another, but every single one left with their heads hanging low.

It was just way too hard.

Some people barely managed to write a single line before getting stuck, then just walked off looking totally defeated.

“Anyone else?” Conrad called out.

“Me,” Celia said. She strode confidently toward the stage, her eyes shining with determination.

John frowned and glanced at Sebastian. He said, “Mr. Gray, this problem?”

Sebastian raised his hand, signaling him to be quiet.

But when Sebastian looked up at the math problem on stage, his eyes went ice-cold, a wave of hostility practically crackling in the air. Stella, standing right next to him, caught it immediately, feeling thoughtful.

“Come on up,” Conrad said, his eyes lighting up as soon as he spotted Celia. He grinned at the mic and said, “You don’t look like a student, do you?” Still, he handed her the chalk.

“No, but I really admire you, Dr. Conrad,” Celia replied.

In the corner, Stella was speechless.

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Celia took the stage with confidence and swiftly wrote across the chalkboard. As the board flipped and turned, all three panels were soon filled. Conrad, initially relaxed, went from visibly surprised to watching intently, while his team grew serious.

With her back to the crowd, Celia smiled confidently, savoring the gasps behind her. After all, she was an intern at Kinetic University Tech Research Institute, playing in a whole different league than these students.

Celia wrote down the final answer and set the chalk down.

She turned around, and the whole auditorium exploded with applause. Down in the audience, that old guy in the suit just shook his head as he took off his glasses.

‘Too bad,’ he thought.

Conrad picked up the mic, asking, “Thank you, Miss. What’s your name?”

“Celia York,” Celia replied.

“Thank you, Ms. York. You really went all out, but the answer to this problem,” Conrad said.

“It’s wrong,” someone said. Suddenly, a cold female voice rang out in the auditorium.

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