Chapter 420

When Celeste saw Howard, there wasn’t a trace of surprise on her face.

The city’s smart traffic project was crucial to the Locket family’s tech company, and yet she had swooped in at the last moment and taken it. How could they possibly sit still and do nothing?

Besides, this wasn’t going to be the last time she made a move like this..

She would strike again when the time was right. 4

Now that the bidding had ended and the project was in YodaVision’s hands, there was no way the Locket family could snatch it

back.

So, if she guessed correctly, Howard had come to see her to prevent similar things from happening again in the future.

And how would he try to persuade her?

By appealing to emotion, of course. Because that would cost nothing. 1

But Celeste had no interest in playing along with such false sentimentality.

She turned around and cut Howard off when he was about to speak

everyone that I’m not her granddaughter. You’ve been living in

taken the initiative, in public,

and distant as she looked him straight in the eye. “So, Mr. Locket, what exactly do you think you can say to me

was no affection left between them as father

froze. Before he could respond, a

this–Mr. Locket, what do you really

“Mr. Yoder, this is

Matthias laughed. “You call her that so intimately, yet I don’t recall you ever addressing her that way in front

that needed to be said had already been

the conversation. She turned to Matthias and said, “Let’s

coldness and detachment in her eyes, Howard suddenly realized that she

looking back, Celeste

word

with Matthias present, it wasn’t the right time

could do was watch helplessly

they’ve done, he still has

smiled and said, “I’m used to

Lockets and the Shaws

Chapter 420

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