Maximilian was using the laptop.
Catherine had taught him how to watch live streams, but what he was doing now didn't look like watching a stream at all. His fingers moved across the keyboard with practiced ease, his attention fixed on whatever was displayed on the screen, and there was a familiar concentration in his expression that made her heart skip.
He looked like Professor Maximilian.
Her Professor Maximilian Whitmore.
For a moment, everything else in the room disappeared. The reporters were still calling her name and throwing questions at her, waiting for answers, but Catherine could barely hear them. Her eyes remained fixed on Maximilian as she tried to understand what she was seeing.
Sebastian noticed her distraction and smoothly stepped in, taking over the microphone with Bernice beside him.
