Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 68

How could *she* be here?!

Why would Serena show up at the institute?

Did she follow me here?

That country bumpkin is just as restless as I thought!

At home, she acted as if she didn't care at all that I was going to study under Mr. Harrison, pretending she had no interest in school.

But now she's followed me all the way here.

And now, Serena was even looking down at her phone as she walked toward the institute's security gate, looking as if she was about to force her way in.

Isabella's pupils constricted. She cursed inwardly, "Is she crazy?!"

A country bumpkin is always a country bumpkin.

Does she have any idea what kind of place she's trying to get into?

This is the national core energy research institute, not a place just any riff-raff can wander into!

Isabella completely forgot about Ian scanning her contact info. She strode toward Serena in her high heels.

"Serena!"

She put out a hand to stop Serena. "What are you doing here?"

She glanced at the nearby guards, a look of "well-meaning" rebuke on her face. "Go, quickly! This is a top-secret national facility. Unauthorized people who get too close can easily be mistaken for foreign spies. If these Department of Defense guards arrest you, it will be very troublesome and humiliating."

"You're so young. Don't throw away your bright future by knowingly breaking the law for a moment of vanity."

As he spoke, he adjusted his lab coat again, making sure Serena could see the institute's logo. "Miss, if you're really that curious about the institute, I could tell you some interesting stories about it."

Serena's steps faltered slightly. She lifted her clear, cool eyes and looked at Ian's smug, self-satisfied face.

Seeing that his words had indeed made Serena stop, the smugness in Ian's eyes grew.

He put on what he thought was a dashing, handsome smile, pushed up his glasses, and began to boast proudly about being Mr. Harrison's favored student, what projects he was in charge of at the institute, his rank, and how many difficult problems he had solved.

Seeing two exceptionally beautiful girls looking at him with rapt attention...

Ian grew more and more animated. "You probably don't know this, but last night at 11:50, the institute's core data showed an abnormal peak fluctuation. Everyone has been working frantically on it since last night... Let me tell you, if I hadn't stepped in, the core data would have collapsed last night. It never would have held on this long."