The Scent of 377

Sunday was Mother’s Day.

Jordyn was driven over to the Rodriguez residence on Saturday by Trevor’s driver.

Her Mother’s Day gift for Celeste was a handmade card, on which she had written, “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. Love you.” in six words.

“Pretty, right? The teacher said I could ask Dad to help, but he’s been too busy lately. I did everything myself- from the layout, drawing the patterns, to sticking on the little hearts.”

It had been a while since Celeste last saw Jordyn doing homework. Her handwriting had become noticeably more beautiful.

Upon hearing this, Celeste looked at the card in her hands and suddenly remembered something from last year. She had flown all the way to Andostan to spend her birthday with Jordyn and Trevor, only to find that Jordyn was busy polishing a bracelet for Wynn.

And from what Jordyn said, that bracelet had been a collaborative effort between her and Trevor.

Celeste thought about all of this, but her expression didn’t change. 2

She slowly closed the card and said calmly, “It’s very pretty. Thank you.”

The next day, Celeste received a call from Zachary, and that same evening, she went to the military base again.

walked into the data center, he paused as soon as

didn’t notice

up her cup and took a sip of water, she finally noticed Caleb standing not

nodded at him, and then continued

to the data center

others, he noticed Celeste was still at her desk and walked

going to grab

looked up and saw it was

and didn’t

saw Caleb waiting outside. It looked li‘ e had been waiting

hearing footsteps, Caleb turned and saw her. He smiled. “All done? Heading to the

“Yes. You?”

“Shall we go together?”

for her. He must’ve been worried about interrupting her

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her, Caleb said, “You probably already saw the footage from my mission last

their own unique flight

today’s age of highly advanced Al, such patterns could

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