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Alright, having said that, there's nothing more to say now, except for this which she probably couldn't stop thinking about.
Just pretend I didn't say anything.
Landon Brooke lowered his gaze and began to eat.
Tiana Williams: ...
Weren't we just chatting? And now we're not talking anymore.
However, she wouldn't be asking him for funding anytime soon. The last time, she hadn't given him the money for the laboratory equipment, and besides, after a bit of a struggle at Old Fox Cyrus's, new funding was about to be approved. She planned to use it as a special project fund to focus on research into structural materials with several other doctoral advisors in the department.
Of course, this road would be long and arduous, and perhaps in the end, they might only achieve intermediate results, but that's science, and success in research isn't always about the results one achieves.
