Waking up with my nemesis baby novel Chapter 216

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But Rebecca distinctly felt his gaze linger on her for a moment.

Madeleine was easygoing and quickly struck up a conversation

with a few of the girls, so the atmosphere wasn’t too awkward.

Until someone raised a question.

“Rebecca, why are you suddenly dropping out of our lab

project?”

All eyes immediately turned to her.

Rebecca’s movements and gaze froze, feeling several intense

stares fixed on her.

Before, she could have lied easily.

But now that Adrian had seen through her, the lies felt like they

were burning her mouth, impossible to say.

Two students who had been on good terms with Rebecca

chuckled and teased her.

“After you left, we were guessing if you went back to date

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someone and get married or something.”

“Pfft…”

Madeleine couldn’t hold it in and spat out her drink.

She grabbed a napkin to wipe her mouth and quickly explained

for Rebecca, “Don’t talk nonsense, our Rebecca is still single.”

After saying that, she deliberately glanced at Adrian.

Although Adrian’s eyes were on the menu, they were clearly

unfocused. His attention was all on Rebecca.

He was indeed curious, wondering what kind of excuse

Rebecca would come up with.

After a long moment.

“It’s just some family business. I had to go back and take care

of it.”

“Trouble at home?

Do you need our help?”

Just as he finished, the person next to him nudged his

shoulder.

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“Are you stupid? What help can we be? If anyone’s going to

help, it’d have to be Professor Shaw.”

Since the conversation had turned to Adrian, he turned his head

to join in.

“Is there anything I can do to help you?”

Rebecca held her breath and turned to meet his gaze.

Her expression was complicated.

He was the one who knew best what she wanted.

For him to ask like this, what did Adrian really mean?

Was he doing it on purpose, to humiliate her?

But on second thought, Rebecca felt she was overthinking it.

After all, she was the one who had lied to Adrian in the first

place.

“It’s nothing.”

Rebecca shook her head, “I can handle it myself.”

After that, she picked up her fork and started eating on her own,

looking unwilling to talk to them.

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It was probably the “don’t come near me” vibe she was giving

off. The students who had been eager to talk to her now just

looked at each other awkwardly.

Adrian looked away and called the waiter over to order.

He looked natural as he changed the subject to the research

project he was currently working on..

As they started talking about the experiment, the atmosphere.

between them finally became less awkward.

Madeleine wanted to say something to Rebecca several times,

but seeing her just staring blankly at the plate of Spicy Wok-

tossed Kidney, she could only sigh silently to herself.

Forget it, I’ll talk to her after dinner when we get back.

“Are you done eating?”

“Pretty much.”

Madeleine nodded. She had lost her appetite long ago. If Rebecca was uncomfortable, she felt uncomfortable too.

Rebecca nodded and paid with her phone.

After standing up, she looked openly at Adrian and his

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students.

“Enjoy your meal, everyone. We’re leaving now.”

“Hey, you’re leaving already? Why don’t you stay a little longer?”

“Yeah, Rebecca, we haven’t seen you in days. Don’t you miss

us?”

Rebecca forced a polite smile, gave a slight nod, and left.

As the two of them left, Adrian’s gaze followed their backs, lost

in thought for a long time.

It wasn’t until they were out of the restaurant that Madeleine

felt the oppressive feeling ease up a bit.

She reached out and tugged on Rebecca’s sleeve.

“Rebecca, are you okay?”

“What could be wrong with me?”

Rebecca composed herself quickly, her expression back to

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