I Was The Mafia’s Maid Now I’m Their Regret Chapter 06
Chloe was warm and outgoing.
Even though I didn’t talk much, she always came over to chat.
Before long, the four of us had become close.
That day, she looked at me and asked,
“Want to go out tonight?”
I shook my head.
“No, I still have some things to do.”
“You’re busy every single day. What are you even up to?”
She leaned toward me curiously. I reached out and gathered up the papers on my desk.
They were mathematical models for encrypted communication I had been working on.
They were important.
They would determine whether I got into that research project and whether I could one day make a living as a cryptographic engineer.
On the first day of school, I had contacted the project lead.
After reading through my research, he’d nodded.
“You have a strong record. Do you have any letters of recommendation?”
I shook my head.
“No. I don’t have any mentors who know me well enough to write one.”
The smile on his face faded slightly.
For a second, his expression reminded me of my family.
Calm, flat, as if to say: *So that’s all you are.*
But he still said, “The materials are solid. Report in tomorrow.”
When I turned and walked out of his office, the sounds of the hallway seemed to drift far away.
I should have been happy.
No one here was making me complete a full year of work only to tell me it didn’t count.
No one ignored my messages, and no one could take what was mine with a single word from the head of the family and hand it to someone else.
But I still couldn’t smile.
I didn’t even know what I was disappointed about.
It was like I had wanted something for years, and now that I finally held it in my hands, I didn’t know what to do with it.