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.

someone better than herself and instantly treating them as an enemy, always assuming other

neutral attitude toward Celeste shifted into mild

Matthias, now free for a moment, glanced through the glass window

leaned in close to

processing data, and it took her a second to register

matter. After answering, she simply

finished, the sooner

“What a poor choice.” That was the

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

ran into a technical issue and

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

they looked at her–if she didn’t know better, she would have

Wynn averted her

and Matthias worked straight through until after 5:00

Chapter 140

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