The Breaking Point of Love

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Chapter 273

The Rodriguez family didn’t have a tradition of staying up late for the Ember Festival. By the time Celeste and the others got home, Betty was already asleep,

When Celeste went upstairs, the clock struck midnight.

Her phone had been vibrating nonstop.

Matthias, Beck, and several colleagues from YodaVision had sent her Ember Festival greetings, including Theodore and Harold.

She replied to each of them, including Beck, before sending greetings of her own to Zachary and Lottle.

Just then, Theodore sent another message, asking if she had time in the next few days. He mentioned that he’d been too busy with work to properly thank her last time, and now that he had a break, he wanted to take her out for a meal.

After finishing her chat with Theodore, Celeste set down her phone and went to take a shower.

Whether they visited or not, seeing Isabelle was always painful for the Rodriguez family.

But on a day like this, how could they truly not go?

Every year, on the morning of Ember Festival’s first day, Celeste and Betty would prepare a feast, pack it up, and take it to the nursing home.

to the

year was

the Ember

already awake

and Adeline both handed her a gift

face and said warmly, “May everything

“Thank you, Granny.”

and Adeline headed into the kitchen to

but when it came to making food for Isabelle, they could only assist because Isabelle could always

had always been Adeline’s

time, as Celeste learned to cook, she and Adeline began splitting

to learn how to cook ever since she was a child–for

Betty wouldn’t allow

cook at an early age because of Isabelle, it would mean

enough. Betty wanted her to have as much happiness as possible without being constantly tied

hours later, a table full of

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Hector helped pack everything

the Ember Festival gifts in hand, the six of them made their way to the

gifts for the doctors and nurses who looked after