Four Years LaterNicole pov The knock came just as I was finishing my notes, and when I looked up, Marlon was already pushing the door open.He was still in his meeting jacket, which means he had come straight here. "It passed," he said.I set my pen down. "The evaluation board?""Clinical trials." He crossed the room and dropped the stamped file on my desk. "Approved, Nicole. Your research is going to trials."I stared at the stamp, then at him, and he grinned wide, relief moved through me as Professor Parkville's face came to mind immediately. Even with him being on a wheelchair, with the tremor in his hands on bad mornings, he still came to the lab every single day and called it keeping busy, when what he was really doing was waiting to see if my work would become something worth the wait.It would now."He's going to be insufferable about being right," I said.Marlon laughed. "I'm already preparing myself." He checked his watch and then straightened. "I have a funding review in t
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