Chapter 140

Jorge asked, “Are you familiar with that woman?”

Hearing him mention Celeste, Wynn’s fingers briefly tightened on the keyboard. She instinctively thought he might be interested in her.

Celeste was indeed beautiful. But recalling what she had overheard at the auction that day, along with Jorge’s current attitude, she quickly realized she had been mistaken.

Expressionless, she replied, “Not really. Why?”

Jorge glanced in Celeste and Matthias’s direction and said, “Judging by how she talks with Matthias, she seems quite capable.”

Wynn said indifferently, “I’m not sure, but I heard she only has a bachelor’s degree.”

“Only a bachelor’s degree?”

“Mm.”

That explained a lot. With a lower academic background than Wynn and lacking the same striking charm, it was understandable that she would feel insecure about Matthias being taken away.

Jorge could understand Celeste’s nervousness about losing Matthias.

an enemy, always assuming other women were trying to

that thought, Jorge’s neutral attitude toward Celeste shifted into

through the glass window at Jorge

few seconds, he leaned in

processing data, and it took her a second to register who he was referring to. Then she

answering, she simply pulled Matthias back to work, reminding him to

the sooner they could

smirked. “What a poor choice.” That

was looking at Wynn. And when he saw Celeste frown and pull Matthias away, he thought she was annoyed

ran into a technical issue and

looked over, she found that both

know better, she would have thought Celeste was some

Wynn averted her

Matthias worked straight through until after 5:00 pm before

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