The Breaking Point of Love

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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.”

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further conversation, Celeste ended

of her recent research ideas. A few days ago,

there were no

had seen little progress. Now that

that thought, she put her phone aside and opened

and full custody of Jo. She must have disagreed, right?

Miles had called him earlier was precisely to discuss this

quickly replied, “No! She agreed! Whether 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 like I

was equally shocked. This

also found it hard to believe that Celeste would so easily give up custody of Jordyn. It

continued, “Could it be that she’s using this to gain

deeply

silence, he asked, “What about Trevor? How did

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