I Was The Mafia’s Maid Now I’m Their Regret Chapter 16
Chloe threw her arms around me, her eyes rimmed with red.
“We saw how hard you worked for this. You deserve every bit of it.”
Emma wasn’t in the dorm, but she flooded our group chat with celebratory emojis.
That evening, Luca took the entire project group out to dinner.
He sat beside me and handed me a drink.
“You earned this.”
“Thank you.”
He looked at me, then asked, “What do you want to do next? Stay at school and keep going?”
I nodded.
“I do. I want to build my own cryptography systems lab and only take on the projects I actually want.”
“Then are you interested in my advisor? He’s one of the top people in the field. He’s been asking about you a lot lately.”
I sat up straighter.
“Really?”
“Of course.”
“Thank you.”
“You don’t need to thank me.” Luca looked at me. “You made yourself impossible to ignore.”
When we came out of the restaurant, a light rain had started to fall.
Chloe had had too much to drink and clung to me, crying.
“Cosima, we’re really good friends, right? When you get famous, you can’t stop talking to me.”
“I won’t.”
“You said that way too fast. It sounds like you’re just brushing me off.”
“I’m not. You were the first friend I made at school.”
That finally seemed to calm her a little.
We supported each other as we walked back toward campus.
But the moment we stepped through the gates, I saw someone in the distance waving at me.