Chapter 77

Henry sneered. "People who are blindly confident end up getting burned by their own confidence." The Encounter was a long way to go from the lab, but the roads were smooth and clear, even on the expressway. Perhaps it was due to most people being at Anna's 80th birthday celebration. It was just the red lights—there were a number of them, so the journey was stop-and-go the whole way. Elise was deep in thought. She and Zara had been good friends for a while, so she knew the latter pretty well. However, she couldn't make sense of her behaviour that day at all. Was Zara truly trying to keep her from divorcing Samuel, or was she hiding something nasty up her sleeve? She asked, "Did she make a breakthrough on Y-2?" Henry shifted in his seat, which he'd already pushed to the limit. Putting up with the discomfort, he asked, "Do you really think I'm a mole or something?" He raised a brow. "Did you forget we have confidentiality rules after being out of the lab for six years?" Even within