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Technically, she was still married.

And with where things stood between them, saying something like that would be inappropriate.

After seeing Beck off, Celeste quickly headed back upstairs,

He watched her go, lingering for a moment before turning to James Ford, one of his company’s core engineers, and said, “I need your help with something.”

“Of course,” James replied.

“A friend of mine is looking to study natural language processing in depth but needs an elite mentor…”

James listened and, given their rapport, agreed without question.

However, he paused for a moment before continuing, “I may have some expertise in this field, but to be honest, I don’t think I measure up to Mr. Yoder from YodaVision or Ms. Rodriguez, who has been handling our collaboration discussions. So, if you’re looking for the best guidance, Ms. Rodriguez or Mr. Yoder might be better choices.”

Beck was a little surprised when he heard what James had said.

His background was in finance, and AI wasn’t his domain.

Yet James was an expert.

James was one of the most respected names in the country— if not the absolute best, then certainly among the

InnovaTech and Fleming

praised Celeste plenty of times before, but even Beck hadn’t realized just how capable she

of her talents in front of the others. He had

But now…

“Mr. Harper?”

and Ms. Rodriguez have had past conflicts with that

“I see.”

ended the conversation at

private lounge

all politeness when she

she quickly steered the conversation toward technical

Beck remained mostly silent,

for a while, Wynn turned to Beck. “It’s a bit

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out of his distraction and answered, “I’m fine. You two

him at his word,

improve, so

humble attitude, made James more than happy

guided her on how to structure her studies and gave

on