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.

instantly treating them as an enemy, always assuming other women were trying

thought, Jorge’s neutral attitude toward Celeste shifted

the glass window at

he leaned in

her a second to register who he was referring to. Then she replied in a flat

didn’t care about the matter. After answering, she simply pulled Matthias back to work, reminding

sooner they finished, the

poor choice.” That

Matthias glancing their way, assumed he was looking at Wynn. And when he saw Celeste frown

a technical issue

ask Matthias for guidance, but when she looked over, she found that both he and the InnovaTech engineers were

way they looked at her–if she didn’t know better, she would have thought Celeste was some kind of

thought, Wynn

and Matthias worked straight through until after

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