Chapter 48

“No. Mom, come home and then go with me! The hot spring retreat is so far away, and it’ll be so boring to go alone,” Jordyn said.

Celeste hesitated for a moment. Perhaps, she could go with Jordyn. “…Alright.”

YodaVision was currently developing a new app, and after dinner, Matthias called her to discuss some technical issues.

While Trevor and Jordyn were chatting in the living room, Celeste stepped outside to take the call. The conversation lasted half an hour.

Jordyn looked up at her and couldn’t help but say, “Mom, you’ve been getting so many phone calls lately. You talk for so long every night. You weren’t like this before…”

Hearing this, Trevor lifted his gaze toward her.

Peter also realized that.

After all, Celeste had never been someone who made frequent phone calls, let alone ones that lasted this long.

Could it be that she was having an affair? No… that couldn’t be, right?

Considering how deeply she felt for Trevor, that didn’t seem likely.

“It’s just about work,” Celeste said briefly. “I’m going upstairs to take care of something.”

“Okay…”

computer and began working on the files that Matthias had

returned to her room. Seeing that Celeste was busy, she didn’t disturb her

past few years, Celeste had never completely

on her own. If Jordyn

years

Celeste didn’t

understand much, but she suddenly realized–wasn’t this similar to the kind of work

while before heading

computer until she was done. Looking at the time, she realized it was

00 am.

Jordyn’s room all night and hadn’t returned to the master bedroom. However, Trevor hadn’t reacted

from him was exactly what

didn’t get

woke up and saw her still sleeping beside her that she realized her mother had stayed with her the

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her up, Jordyn got up quietly and left the

she yawned.

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