The Breaking Point of Love

The Scent of 167

Just now, Matthias had called her to say that he had arranged for a lawyer, and she would be meeting them tomorrow morning

Celeste needed to finalize the divorce as soon as possible.

Beck knew she had misunderstood, but he didn’t correct her. He simply responded, “Alright.”

At this point, Celeste assumed he was about to hang up. But when he didn’t, she asked in confusion, “Mr. Harper, is there anything else?”

Beck could tell that her voice was calm–there was no trace of the pain, sorrow, or turmoil he had expected.

But… Was that really the case? Or was she just suppressing her emotions?

When he remained silent for two or three seconds, Celeste prompted, “Mr. Harper? Are you still there?”

He snapped back to reality and replied, “Yes.”

Celeste asked again, “Is there anything else?” Then, without hesitation, she added, “I have other matters to handle. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be hanging up.”

had no choice but to

further conversation, Celeste ended

to one of her recent research ideas. A few days ago, he had messaged her, asking her

there were no issues,

little progress. Now that she finally had some free time, she wanted to

her phone aside and opened

called Miles back and asked, “Trevor wants a divorce and full custody

him earlier was precisely to

it was the divorce or custody, she didn’t object at all. She just signed the papers. She was completely calm–I swear, it’s

shocked. This wasn’t

found it hard to believe that Celeste would

Before Beck could answer, Miles continued, “Could it be that she’s

deeply Celeste felt

asked, “What about Trevor? How

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