The Scent of 140

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.

Celeste’s

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

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

moment, glanced through the glass window

seconds, he leaned in close to Celeste and murmured, “Jorge

register who he was

she simply pulled Matthias back to work, reminding

they finished, the sooner they

a poor choice.” That was the end of his

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

into a technical

ask Matthias for guidance, but when she looked over, she found that both he and the InnovaTech engineers were completely focused on listening to

she didn’t know better, she would have thought Celeste was

thought, Wynn averted

and Matthias worked straight through until after 5:00 pm before finally wrapping

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into the conference room to take a break and have some

CodeFlux and InnovaTech had

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