Chapter 8

One of Miles‘ companions asked, “What’s wrong?”

“I think I saw someone I know,” Miles replied.

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He and the others had grown up with Trevor and knew about Celeste’s affection for him.

To be frank, Celeste was beautiful in her own right. But her reserved nature made her unremarkable. Hence, she was just not Trevor’s type.

Because Trevor kept his distance from her, they too looked down on her. They hadn’t seen Celeste many times, and even when they did, they rarely greeted her.

In truth, Miles couldn’t quite remember what Celeste looked like. He wasn’t even sure if he had indeed seen her. But even if it had been her, it didn’t matter to him.

He said nothing more and returned to the private room.

Celeste didn’t notice Miles,

After leaving the restaurant, she took Lottie home and stayed over to take care of her.

When Lottie woke up and saw Celeste, she hugged her gratefully. “Thanks for last night. I owe you dinner!” Celeste had already prepared breakfast. She patted Lottie’s head and said, “Go wash up before the food gets cold.” Lottle clung to her, burying her face in Celeste’s waist. “Cel you’re so soft and smell so nice. Hugging you feels amazing!”

Celeste was at a loss for words.

After freshening up, Lottie came to the table and saw the delicious breakfast Celeste had made. She felt incredibly lucky, thinking that whoever married Celeste would have hit the jackpot.

But upon remembering Celeste’s marriage to Trevor, she worried about hurting her feelings and kept her thoughts to herself.

started eating her breakfast

expression changed. She looked up at Celeste. “Is

“Yes,” Celeste replied.

Miles‘ social media feed, featuring several photos from their gathering

“Happy birthday to the beautiful

celebration, four or five of the nine pictures featured her and Trevor together. In one particularly striking photo, they were cutting the cake together,

knife.

for Jordyn, she was absent from all the photos. This was likely to prevent Trevor’s grandmother, Martha Daniels, from finding out about the gathering. After all, Martha, who was close to Betty, had never approved of

that Jordyn was close to

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it would seem like Trevor and Wynn were a couple. It was clear that the birthday party had been

her

looked at her worriedly.

them has nothing to do with me anymore,” Celeste said, handing the

flabbergasted. “You…

“Yes.”

to admire him and even harbored a small crush on him. It

had graduated from Trellis College when she’d just turned 18 after skipping three grades. She had quickly founded a tech company and earned several patents. These were achievements that seemed

reportedly graduated from college at 13. He then pursued further studies abroad, during which he founded several

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while founding more companies, he took over

wasn’t surprising that Celeste–a genius herself–had

love for him over

loved Trevor and had often advised her to leave him. Yet, Celeste always shook

quite believe that Celeste would take the

breakfast aside, Lottie looked at Celeste with concern.

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