Chapter 1362
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After all, she had never intended to actually treat Frederick Foster.
“Why don’t we cut to the chase, Mr. Foster? Tell me exactly what makes me so valuable that you’d risk your life sneaking into Solenia just to drag me back to Sundara.”
“You are as sharp as they say.”
Since she was already in his clutches, Frederick saw no reason to hide the truth.
“I never imagined that, after all these years, I would finally meet the daughter of Agassi and Melissa.”
A chilling wave of clarity washed over Claire; the missing puzzle pieces finally snapped together.
Just as I suspected. Frederick Foster was entirely focused on her parents!
When Claire didn’t outwardly react, Frederick’s gaze filled with a twisted sense of admiration.
“You might not know me, but I was deeply acquainted with your parents.”
“Your father was my student.”
The words hit Claire like a physical blow, sending a shockwave through her mind.
What? Her biological father had been a student of Frederick Foster?
Having a traitor for a mentor must have made her father’s life an absolute nightmare.
“My apologies for the disrespect,” Claire drawled, genuinely surprised to learn Frederick used to be a professor at The Cabinda University.
No wonder he had avoided Cabinda and scurried into Apex instead.
A man with his treasonous record would have been slapped in irons the second he set foot in the capital!
“Technically, you should be addressing me with the utmost respect as your academic senior, but I can see you have a rebellious streak.”
“You are very much like your father in that regard.”
“In fact, you are the spitting image of both your parents.”
“Your father was nothing but a dirt-poor country boy, yet he was utterly immune to the temptation of money, entirely consumed by his research.”
“I always thought he was just a clueless bookworm. Imagine my shock when he
quietly won over the most sought-after socialite in Cabinda.”
Claire cut him off. “Mr. Foster, don’t tell me you were just jealous that your student managed to get the girl.”
Frederick choked on his next words.
He truly hadn’t expected Claire to read him so effortlessly.
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Melissa was endless. She was brilliant, fiercely beautiful and backed by a terrifyingly power family the absolute dream girl of every man at The Cabinda O University.
Even the faculty weren’t immune to her charm.
He claimed to be Agassi’s mentor, but the reality was that he merely taught one of Agassis undergraduate classes; he was never his primary graduate advisor.
If anything, Frederick was more of a senior peer to Agassi.
He might have instructed him briefly, but he was far from a revered mentor.
“It sounds like my mother was an absolute catch.”
Seeing Frederick fall silent only confirmed Claire’s suspicions.
She sighed inwardly. Classic case of a pathetic creep coveting something completely out of his league.
“Your mother… was incredibly captivating,” Frederick murmured, strangely lost in the nostalgia of the past.
Perhaps he felt confident enough in his impending victory to indulge in a trip down memory lane.
“The first time I saw her, she took my breath away.”
“She was just a freshman arriving for orientation.”
“She wore a crimson dress, her hair pulled up high, skin luminous, moving with the effortless grace of a swan.”
“I remember wondering what kind of powerful family could produce such a flawless creature.”
“Only later did I find out she was a prodigy in the mathematics department.”
“God is truly unfair. He gave her
unearthly intellect and beauty anet then handed her unimaginable
wealth on top of it all.”
“And me?”
“I was born in the dirt, raised by uneducated laborers.”
“In those days, I thought securing a teaching position at the university meant I had conquered the world.”
“So, I didn’t dare dream that a woman like your mother would ever spare a glance for a poverty-stricken professor like me.”
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