Chapter 112

Author's POV Moira and Dillan finished their work quickly. They looked out the window and saw only Dillan's car in the parking lot, while Hiroshi had not yet returned. Moira sighed softly, then nudged Dillan's arm, waking him from his reverie. "Daydreaming?" asked Moira. Dillan just chuckled. "Just thinking about the possibility that the professor will return with one more junior," he said. "Aren't you worried?" "Should I be? You said yourself that our professor is very fair in his assessments. So that's what I believe." "Do you think Bella doesn't meet his standards?" Dillan asked confirming what was inside Moira's head. She should have been anxious as he was, but she seemed calm since then, as if unfazed by even the worst possibility. "Maybe. I never really checked her abilities, but a long time ago she used my idea for her college project. More accurately, she stole it. You remember my missing prototype, right?" "Yeah, I remember that. You didn't say the file was stolen. You said—"