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

happened 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, and I’ve run into you

you ever taken the initiative, in public, to call me your

her tone cold and distant as she looked him straight in the eye. “So, Mr. Locket, what exactly do you

reality–there was no affection left between them as father

could respond, a chuckle sounded

Locket, what do you

frowned. “Mr. Yoder, this is

intimately, yet I don’t recall you ever addressing her that way

to be said had

the conversation. She turned to Matthias and

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

looking back, Celeste

word in the entire

with Matthias present, it wasn’t the right

could do was watch helplessly as she walked

were in the elevator, Matthias said with a sneer, “After all they’ve done, he still has the audacity to come

said,

the Lockets and the Shaws immediately asked him about how

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