The Scent of 296

Chapter 296

Gideon was truly angry.

He ignored Trevor completely and looked at Celeste instead “Come on, Celeste. I’ll take you out for a meal.”

Celeste set down her teacup and stood up. “Alright.”

With that, Gideon didn’t spare Trevor another glance and left with Celeste.

Trevor remained seated on the couch, calmly, sipping his tea. He neither got up to follow them nor tried to stop them from leaving.

Wynn looked at their backs as they walked out. “This-”

Trevor said, “It’s fine. Just give it some time.”

In other words, after enough time passed, Gideon would accept reality and slowly start accepting her?

Gideon had witnessed the state of Celeste and Trevor’s marriage during the first two or three years after they got married. He had seen clearly from the start that Trevor didn’t like Celeste. And now, Trevor had someone else he cared for.

Though Trevor had always had a good relationship with elders like Martha and Gideon, he was never someone easily swayed by them. So, even if they disapproved of his relationship with Wynn, there was really nothing they could do about it—and no way they could talk him out of it.

As angry as Gideon was, he could only stew in silence.

With that in mind, Gideon gently patted the back of Celeste’s hand. “These past few years… sigh.”

Celeste knew he was expressing sympathy. She gave a soft smile and said, “I’ve already let it go. I have a new life of my own now, and I’m doing well. You don’t have to worry about me, Mr. Yuvenhart.”

Gideon smiled. “Good, that’s good.”

After lunch, when Celeste brought Gideon back to his manor, Trevor and Wynn were already gone.

Maybe after they had left the manor, Trevor and Wynn didn’t bother checking in on Jordyn–because as Celeste was leaving, Jordyn called her. She looked at the call, but didn’t answer.

That evening, when Celeste went back to the Rodriguez residence for dinner, she saw an invitation envelope sitting on the coffee table.

Opening it, she saw it was an invitation to Martha’s 75th birthday celebration.

Technically, there was still some time before Martha’s actual birthday. But a few years ago, a fortune teller had told her that she shouldn’t hold a major birthday celebration within the next ten years, or she would face a life- threatening calamity.

Martha took it seriously. So, for the past decade, she always just had a simple meal with family on her birthday- never throwing a proper banquet.

Now that the ten–year period had passed, Lincoln, Trevor, and the others had already talked about throwing party for her this year.

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That was probably why, even though the event was still a while away, they had already finalized the details and started sending out invitations.

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Betty came out of her room and saw the invitation In Celeste’s hand. “It was just delivered ”

“Okay.” Celeste gave a soft nod.

Betty added, “This is the first time in a decade she’s hosting a proper birthday banquet. Technically, we should attend no matter what, but-”

But given the situation between Celeste and Trevor, it really didn’t feel appropriate.

And honestly, she didn’t want to go either.

Celeste understood exactly what Betty was thinking–she felt the same.

Besides, Trevor had already brought Wynn to the manor. When the party came, under pressure from Martha, there was no telling if he might show up with Wynn too.

She set that aside for now.

After dinner with the Rodriguez family, Celeste returned to her own place.

On Monday morning, she headed back to work at YodaVision as usual.

When work got busy, time always flew by and before she knew it, Thursday had arrived again.

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