Chapter 420

When Celeste saw Howard, there wasn’t a trace of surprise on her face.

The city’s smart traffic project was crucial to the Locket family’s tech company, and yet she had swooped in at the last moment and taken it. How could they possibly sit still and do nothing?

Besides, this wasn’t going to be the last time she made a move like this..

She would strike again when the time was right. 4

Now that the bidding had ended and the project was in YodaVision’s hands, there was no way the Locket family could snatch it

back.

So, if she guessed correctly, Howard had come to see her to prevent similar things from happening again in the future.

And how would he try to persuade her?

By appealing to emotion, of course. Because that would cost nothing. 1

But Celeste had no interest in playing along with such false sentimentality.

She turned around and cut Howard off when he was about to speak

the last time. Madam Locket said in front of everyone that I’m not her granddaughter. You’ve been living in Baumond for over half a year now,

have you ever taken the initiative, in public,

tone cold and distant as she looked him straight in the eye. “So, Mr. Locket, what exactly do you think you can say to me

bare the reality–there was no affection left between them

Before he could respond, a chuckle sounded

to this–Mr. Locket, what do you really think

this

so intimately, yet I don’t recall

be said

want to continue the conversation. She turned to Matthias and said,

in her eyes, Howard suddenly realized that she truly no longer saw him as

back, Celeste

a word

Matthias present, it wasn’t the right

he could do was watch helplessly as she

they’ve done, he

smiled and said, “I’m

returned home, the Lockets and the Shaws

Chapter 420

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