The Breaking Point of Love

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Technically, she was still married.

And with where things stood between them, saying something like that would be inappropriate.

After seeing Beck off, Celeste quickly headed back upstairs,

He watched her go, lingering for a moment before turning to James Ford, one of his company’s core engineers, and said, “I need your help with something.”

“Of course,” James replied.

“A friend of mine is looking to study natural language processing in depth but needs an elite mentor…”

James listened and, given their rapport, agreed without question.

However, he paused for a moment before continuing, “I may have some expertise in this field, but to be honest, I don’t think I measure up to Mr. Yoder from YodaVision or Ms. Rodriguez, who has been handling our collaboration discussions. So, if you’re looking for the best guidance, Ms. Rodriguez or Mr. Yoder might be better choices.”

Beck was a little surprised when he heard what James had said.

His background was in finance, and AI wasn’t his domain.

Yet James was an expert.

When it came to NLP–natural language processing, James was one of the most respected names in the country— if not the absolute best, then certainly among the top.

InnovaTech and Fleming Tech’s own

had praised Celeste plenty of times before, but even

her talents in front of the others. He had assumed that, while Celeste

But now…

“Mr. Harper?”

snapped back to his senses. “Both Mr. Yoder and Ms. Rodriguez have had past conflicts with

“I see.”

the

James arrived at the private lounge that night,

all politeness when

quickly steered the conversation toward technical

Beck remained mostly silent, appearing distracted as

chatted with James for a while, Wynn turned to

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distraction and answered, “I’m fine. You two carry on; don’t mind

took him at his word, continuing her discussion with

genuinely eager to improve, so

humble attitude, made James