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Kietan frowned. “Not a single lead?”

“Yeah,” his friend replied. “I heard she got married pretty young, it apparently her relationship with her husband wasn’t great.

“The Rodriguez family’s neighbors say they’ve never even seen the guy. It seems like her family doesn’t like him either. They

won’t even mention him.”

After a short pause, he added, “Also, they already have a child.”

Kieran abruptly looked up, thinking he must have misheard. “What did you say?”

“It’s true. I was just as shocked when I found out. You’d never guess, just looking at her.”

Indeed.

He had worked with Celeste at YodaVision for so long and had never once heard her mention a child. Nothing about her gave that impression either.

Seeing how stunned he was, his friend asked, “Want me to keep going?”

The implication was clear—Celeste had been married and had a child. Would Kieran still like her? If not, then there was no point in continuing to dig into her past.

Kieran stood there silently.

He had everything going for him, yet his love life had always been a mess.

The first woman he liked ended up falling for someone else while he was still pursuing her.

And now, just as he had finally started to develop feelings for someone new, he found out she had not only been married, but she also had a child.

Who could accept that?

the shoulder. When he was just about to leave, he heard Celeste’s voice, still engaged

conversation with Tanner.

turned his head toward her

a few seconds, his gaze steadied.

looking to flirt

realized what Kieran meant and stared at him in shock. “Seriously? Are you

at him but

friend gaped for a while, about to say more when Kieran suddenly caught sight

started chatting

Seeing her, Kieran hesitated.

recognized

glanced over, he awkwardly raised his hand and

nodded and

nod before turning away, deliberately

friend didn’t say much more to Wynn and continued,

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dig a bit

Kieran replied, “No need.”

Celeste’s ex–husband was, but not so much that he needed to know at all

Digging too deep into the past

was to get general sense of her background—not to

shrugged. “Alright

response,

Kieran had immediately looked in their

She couldn’t help

Wynn didn’t respond.

Celeste really was quite capable, her thoughts had quickly drifted to

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