Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1515

Emmy shook her head, her face pale. "No, I don't want to stop. John, if I stop now, I won't be able to control my spiraling thoughts. Let's just keep going."

Watching her struggle to keep it together, John ran a frustrated hand through his blonde hair and feigned a dramatic complaint. "Emmy, I know you're the Sovereign of Star Jewel and you're loaded. But look at the mess you've made these past two days! Your little mistakes have already blown through our entire project budget! Even if you have money to burn, you can't just sit there torturing yourself like this. I refuse to sit here and watch you throw cash away on garbage experiments."

He promptly saved all the experimental data and yanked out the master key drive. "Forget it. If you won't take a vacation, then I'm giving myself one. We can resume whenever you've got your head straight." Tossing his lab coat over the back of his chair, John walked right out of the laboratory.

Emmy pressed her lips into a tight line and stubbornly booted up the backup system. Refusing to admit defeat, she tried to push forward with her independent module. But no matter how hard she forced herself to focus, the code on the screen looked like a tangled mess. Bizarre error alerts kept ringing out across the lab.

"Beep. Warning. Data overflow!"

"Beep. Logic error. Compilation failed!"

On the final attempt, staring at a screen full of bright red error reports, Emmy finally broke. She grabbed the report, slammed it onto the desk, and crouched down in the corner, burying her head in her hands. "Why... why can't I even do something this simple right?!"

At the word 'pray', a faint glimmer of light finally returned to Emmy's vacant eyes. In moments of utter despair when science offered no answers, humans instinctively reached out for the divine as a lifeline. As if snapping out of her intense emotional spiral, she gripped Nina's arm. "Yes, pray. We'll go pray right now. We will ask God to keep him safe."

Nina carefully helped a slightly wobbly Emmy to her feet, wiping the tears from her cheeks. "Mrs. Nelson, it's way too late today. It's windy outside, and you've got a baby on the way. How about we go first thing in the morning? I know a church near Harvard that's supposed to be super effective. Lots of international students go there. They say whether you're praying for love, a career, or safety, it really works!"

Swallowing the lump in her throat, Emmy nodded. That night, she dragged her exhausted body back to the villa. Listening to Nina's endless chatter along the way helped ease her tightly wound nerves. After a quick hot shower, she changed into her pajamas and had just slipped into bed when her phone buzzed on the nightstand. She scrambled to grab it and lit up the screen.