"Holy shit, Professor Trenton is actually Chloe's senior! I think they look perfect together."
"No way. Chloe has a boyfriend. He's rich and good-looking, just a little on the older side."
…
Chloe Sinclair heard every word of the discussion around her. There was no malice in their comments, so she paid them no mind.
She only had one class today, so she planned to leave with Nathan Trenton afterward.
"Chloe, your adoptive parents…"
Nathan Trenton and Chloe Sinclair walked side by side down the hallway, with students and teachers bustling all around them.
Nathan Trenton trailed off.
He remembered what Chloe Sinclair had told him last time.
Just thinking about it made his heart ache so much he could barely breathe.
He came from a wealthy family and had lived a charmed life. Even when he'd stubbornly decided to research nuclear fusion, his family had quietly supported him from the sidelines, despite their verbal objections.
