The Breaking Point of Love

Kietan frowned. “Not a single lead?”

“Yeah,” his friend replied. “I heard she got married pretty young, it apparently her relationship with her husband wasn’t great.

“The Rodriguez family’s neighbors say they’ve never even seen the guy. It seems like her family doesn’t like him either. They

won’t even mention him.”

After a short pause, he added, “Also, they already have a child.”

Kieran abruptly looked up, thinking he must have misheard. “What did you say?”

“It’s true. I was just as shocked when I found out. You’d never guess, just looking at her.”

Indeed.

He had worked with Celeste at YodaVision for so long and had never once heard her mention a child. Nothing about her gave that impression either.

Seeing how stunned he was, his friend asked, “Want me to keep going?”

The implication was clear—Celeste had been married and had a child. Would Kieran still like her? If not, then there was no point in continuing to dig into her past.

Kieran stood there silently.

He had everything going for him, yet his love life had always been a mess.

The first woman he liked ended up falling for someone else while he was still pursuing her.

And now, just as he had finally started to develop feelings for someone new, he found out she had not only been married, but she also had a child.

Who could accept that?

the shoulder. When he was just about to

conversation with Tanner.

his head toward her

seconds, his gaze

looking to flirt elsewhere, was momentarily confused.

and stared at him in shock.

at him but said

for a while, about to say more when

and started chatting with someone

Seeing her, Kieran hesitated.

friend recognized Wynn

glanced over, he awkwardly raised his hand and greeted her with a polite smile, “Ms.

nodded and looked toward

before turning away, deliberately

friend didn’t say much more to Wynn and

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to dig a

Kieran replied, “No need.”

ex–husband was, but not so much that he needed to know

Digging too deep into the past served no

her was to get general sense of her background—not to investigate everything about

friend shrugged.

Kieran’s response, also looked

Kieran had immediately

She couldn’t help but teasingly say,

Wynn didn’t respond.

Celeste really was quite capable, her thoughts