Unloved Unwanted Unstoppable (Seraphina and Dominic) novel Chapter 188

The email ended with a string of exclamation points. She could perfectly picture the old man furiously hammering his keyboard, eyes wide and beard bristling with excitement.

The email was quite lengthy, but every line hammered home the exact same point.

[Since you've made your grand return, you absolutely must come visit the Institute! Even if it's just to pop your head in! You can't play favorites! You went to see that old fossil Dean Scott, but you're ignoring me? Is that how you treat your favorite professor?!]

Reading the screen, Seraphina couldn't help but smile, feeling a warm, helpless affection.

Scrolling up, she noticed an earlier email he had sent the night before, which she had completely missed.

It carried the exact same frantic energy.

Just as she was debating how to reply, her phone buzzed again.

A new message popped up from Dean Vance:

[Kid, come to the Institute this Friday. We're having a panel on a major active project. We've been deadlocked on a few critical bottlenecks for ages. Come take a look. I've sent you the files.]

A second later, an encrypted attachment dropped into her inbox.

Seraphina froze, her fingers hovering over the keyboard.

Her thoughts drifted back to six years ago.

Back then, she had been a double-major prodigy at Capital University, studying power resources and nuclear research. Dean Scott and Dean Vance were her mentors in those respective fields, and she had excelled brilliantly in both.

By the time graduation rolled around, both deans were fighting tooth and nail to recruit her to their exclusive research divisions.

Dean Scott was her primary advisor. He had stopped taking students years prior, but broke his own rule just for her, personally guiding her through massive projects.

Dean Vance, the head of the neighboring nuclear division, watched her like a hawk, absolutely terrified that she would dedicate all her genius to power resources and abandon nuclear research.

When he found out Dean Scott had taken her on as an exclusive apprentice, he was so furious he got into a screaming match with Scott, calling him a manipulative snake.

In retaliation, Vance created a highly classified "special prodigy" slot solely for her. From its inception to this day, Seraphina was the only student to ever hold the title.

When Dean Scott found out, he ruthlessly mocked Vance for being a copycat, a hypocrite, and an even bigger manipulative snake.

Six years had passed, but the old man's texting habits hadn't matured a single day.

That effortless banter made the six-year gap feel like an illusion, as if she had never left.

The conversation ended.

Seraphina set her phone aside and opened the encrypted file, typing in her login credentials.

This was her alumni portal from six years ago. It held top-tier security clearance, and every access log was heavily encrypted by the university, making it completely untraceable to the outside world.

This was one of the many reasons why, over six years of marriage, the Lockwood family never discovered her true academic pedigree.

The pages of highly classified data loaded one by one.

Scanning through the schematics, a profound sense of nostalgia washed over her.

It felt exactly like being a student again.