Rachel nodded without hesitation. "Yes, I would love that."
Attentive to Rachel's heartiness, Nathan nodded satisfactorily. "Come to the Chapman Group headquarters tomorrow at 8 AM, bring the card, and ask for me at my office."
Upon finishing his sentence, Nathan left Rachel's sight in huge strides.
Rachel immediately sank into her thoughts. Everything in the Orange Country depended on the qualification one had. If they were looking for a job after graduation, it depended on their certificates and from where it was obtained. Even professional industries looked for fresh hires that were from a good school.
Her frantic escape from Istituto Marangoni had caused her to not have a degree, and because of that, she would have been stuck in the Orange Country without a way to move forward!
An employer like Nathan Chapman, who does not look at qualifications, was rare, let alone being hired by one! Even if she started from the very bottom of the hierarchy, she would not need to toil for too long before a promotion would come to her.
Nathan was someone who values capability, which she had. It would be absurd for her to worry about having to start as an entry-level worker.
Rachel was deep in her thoughts when her phone's ringtone pulled her back into reality.
When she picked up the call, all she heard was Jodie's roar over the connection. "Rachel! Through someone I know, I have found the best nursery for elites in the entire Orange Country! However, they do have a stupid rule, they might only take Ziggy depending on his IQ score!"
Rachel was a little puzzled. "IQ score?"
"That's right! I heard every single child in this nursery is a prodigy in one way or another, so they have to test his IQ score before deciding whether to admit him!"
There were zero worries in Jodie's excited roar. Evidently, she had full confidence in Ziggy's intelligence.
Rachel checked her wristwatch. It was near noon. "They want to test him now?"
Jodie sounded a little antsy. "That's right! Tomorrow's the first day of school. If we don't do it now, no amount of personal connections will help him be admitted!"
Rachel bit her lips softly and hesitantly. "Jodie, I just want Ziggy to have a happy, carefree childhood. I don't need him to be a genius or have breathtaking achievements. He's my son, no matter what, I will love him."
Jodie suddenly stopped talking. When she replied moments later, her voice was calm.
"Rachel, Ziggy-boy is beyond clever. If you place him in some random, mediocre school, it would be wasting his talent! You should go home and ask him what he thinks. I'll wait for you in front of the nursery, I've already sent you the address."
After she hung up, Rachel kept ruminating on Jodie's words, and as she gripped tightly onto her phone, she had made up her mind.
'Ziggy should decide for himself.'
At that thought, Rachel raced back to her apartment.
Ziggy, still writing a piece of code on his laptop, looked at the door all of a sudden.
Within a split second, he saved the code, cleared the browsing history, and turned off the laptop.
The second his tiny hand pulled the cover down, the door opened.
He smiled at Rachel as she walked in. "Mommy, you're so early!"
At the entrance of such a luxurious elite nursery, two figures slowly approached.
Jodie jogged to Rachel's side with a huge grin. "Rachel! Ziggy-boy! I knew you would come!"
Ziggy looked at Jodie suspiciously. "Aunt Jodie, how do you know we'll be coming?"
Jodie laughed proudly as she tilted her face upward. "Because I know a twerp like you would take on your mom's bravery. Your grandparents didn't let your mom go into an elite school, but your mom insisted, so I know you would do the same..."
Rachel tugged at Jodie's shirt, hinting for her to stop.
Jodie paused in surprise before she immediately covered her mouth and shook her head.
"Alright, alright, come take the test! They're waiting."
Holding onto Rachel's hand, Ziggy's eyes glazed over, thinking about a serious question.
Rachel had never told him anything about her own family, so Aunt Jodie's revelation was the first time he had heard anything about her own family.
'Looks like mommy's life was hard before she had me...'
Ziggy followed several ladies in uniform into a small room. He did not cry, fuss, or show any emotion on his face.
The ladies were all intrigued. This would be their first time seeing a kid behave like this!
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