The CEO's Unwanted Wife novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Not Enough

The apartment the institute had found for me had one window, and the window had the lake in it.

I stood there on Monday morning with a coffee I had not tasted and watched a ferry cross the grey water.

Nobody in the building knew my name.

For the first time in four years, nobody had a reason to look at me and see Mrs. Merrow.

My phone lay face down on the counter.

It had been buzzing since Sunday.

The lab was a twenty-minute walk through cold, clean streets.

The director's assistant met me at the glass doors with a lanyard.

"Dr. Voight," she said, and she said it the way people say a word they have been looking forward to.

My bench was by a tall window.

On it stood a row of empty tubes, a microscope with a bow stuck to it, and a card that said WELCOME, in six languages.

The postdoc at the next bench wiped her hands and held one out.

"I'm told you're the woman who made the senior board cry at your interview."

"I didn't make anyone cry."

"One of them blew his nose for ten minutes. I'm counting it." She grinned. "I'll show you where the good coffee is. Don't touch the machine in the hall. It's been angry since 2019."

I laughed.

It surprised me so much that I had to put my hand on the bench.

I got through the morning on cell counts and a sink with a very odd tap.

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