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.

them as an enemy, always assuming other women were

thought, Jorge’s neutral attitude

a moment, glanced through the glass window at Jorge and Wynn inside the

he leaned in close to Celeste and

data, and it took 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 him to quit

they finished, the sooner

That

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

into a

over, she found that both he and the

her–if she didn’t know better, she would have thought Celeste was some

thought, Wynn

after 5:00 pm before finally wrapping

Chapter 140

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