“Wendy Greene,” said Marcus. “You're proficient enough in Ustranasion, so why don’t you go on and show Arron around the campus?”
“Who? Me?” Wendy pointed to herself in a mixture of surprise and delight as she asked.
“Yes. You.”
It must have slipped the mind of the scattered-brain Marcus how Wendy's hiccup with her translation work the last time nearly cost the school the contract to Maxwell University's advanced mathematics lesson plan.
For some inexplicable reason, Wendy started to get butterflies in her stomach. She clasped her hands tightly and made her way over to Aaron amidst the envious looks cast her way by her female peers.
She did feel a sliver of discontent against Aaron when she heard him mention
Arielle, but it did not matter in the end as she enjoyed basking in the attention and envy of others.
Wendy stopped in front of Aaron wearing the most punctilious smile possible before she addressed him genially. “Well, Aaron, please follow me.”
“After you then, beautiful,” replied Aaron as he arched his head back to instruct his bodyguard to take the helicopter off the grounds.
The language in which he spoke was one which Wendy had never encountered before and that prompted her inquisitiveness. “Where are you from, Aaron?”
“That doesn't seem to be any of your concern now, does it?” answered Aaron with a wry smile.
The cold glint that flashed across his eyes as he spoke made Wendy jump. “I'm sorry for being nosy.” “No worries. Please lead the way.” In an instant, Aaron reverted to his sensual, charming self, and that caused Wendy to believe that she might have been mistaken.
The two of them then walked otf into the distance and away from the longing eyes in the crowd.
One of the girls in the class muttered, “Isn't Wendy a little too lucky? It wasn't that long ago that Jason slipped her a name card. Now, she's tasked to show the new transfer student around...”
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