While Jack Reed was offering guidance to his students inside the classroom, a tall young man strode toward the building with firm, deliberate steps.
“Elder Lewis, are you absolutely sure about this?”
The young man turned to the older figure following close behind, his voice laced with tension.
“Young master, it’s true,” Elder Lewis replied quickly, his expression troubled. “The young miss has officially acknowledged Jack Reed as her teacher.”
Had Jack been nearby to overhear them, he would’ve recognized Elder Lewis as the same man who had tried to pull Emily Wright out of his lessons just the day before.
And the "young master" now fuming beside him? None other than Thomas Wright, Emily’s older brother—a top genius at Astoria Academy and personal disciple of one of the academy’s elders
