The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 292

ELIJAH’S POV: 

The panel chair went through the placings from third upward. Third place was the water filtration project. I watched Andrew register this without any expression on his face. Second place was the light spectrum project. I watched him register this too, still without expression. 

The results took time. The panel chair went through the categories methodically and there were several before Life Sciences and Andrew waited through all of them without fidgeting 

I watched him while he waited. He was watching the panel and reading their faces, not anxiously but with the data -gathering attention he brought to everything. At one point he leaned slightly toward me and said, very quietly” The grey-haired judge spoke more extensively about the projects she responded to. I counted the questions.” I looked at him. “She asked me three questions,” he said. “She asked the other projects one or two.” He said this without triumph. Just as information. 

“How many questions did the other judges ask you?” I said. 

“Two each,” he said. “Which I think is standard.” 

“Okay,” I said. 

He straightened back up and went back to watching.. 

“And first place in the Life Sciences category,” the panel chair said, “goes to a project that demonstrated exceptional scientific thinking for any age, let alone the age of the participant. The hypothesis was clearly formed, the methodology was rigorous, and the presentation was the clearest we saw today. The participant showed maturity in acknowledging the limitations of his own dataset, which is a quality we do not often see. First place goes to Andrew Martinez.” 

Andrew was very still for one second. 

Then he looked at me. 

And his face everything, his happiness before he put it back in order. 

I said. 

He went to collect the award and he stood at the front of the room and he said thank you and he shook the hands of all three judges and he came back to me and handed me the certificate to hold while he carried the small trophy himself. 

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