Damon was already filled with rage before the conversation. He was worried about Celeste being at home too. Now that his best friends had come here to convince him on behalf of his mother, how could he possibly accept such a thing? Nobody could take Celeste away from him! "Ah, we're just doing this to show Mrs. Bishop some respect. That's why we came over to talk to you. It's just an errand." Seeing that the situation was worsening, Nicholas hurriedly got up and pulled Jasper's sleeve. He tried to ease the tension. "Damon, we'll be leaving now. Don't worry, I think you and Celeste are a great match." Without waiting for Jasper to react, Nicholas dragged him out of the office. On their way to the underground parking lot, Jasper's face was as hard as steel. He was angry about what Damon said. Nicholas had driven them both here, so he had to send Jasper back home too. The drive from Bishop Group to Jasper's company was quite long. At first, the two were silent. When the sk
On the other hand, Celeste was growing more desperate to get out. But the more desperate she was, the harder it was for her to think straight. She was so used to suppressing her emotions that she didn't realize how strange it was for Liam to be by her side at this time. "Mrs. Bishop, it's no use for you to sit there and do nothing. You should try talking to Mr. Bishop." Looking at her expressionless face, he sighed and tried to convince her. Damon was still angry at her. Besides, he was being pressured by Serena to divorce her. How could that be solved just by talking to him? Celeste couldn't think of any solution. She was panicking. She was so overwhelmed by all those emotions that she couldn't hold it in anymore. "Liam, please pass me the medical kit." After bandaging her wound, Edna didn't take the medical kit with her when she left. Liam didn't know what Celeste was up to, but he handed it to her. Celeste's hands were cuffed, which made it hard for her to open the kit
"Mrs. Bishop." Celeste had not seen Serena ever since she attended Serena's birthday celebration. Now that Serena was here, it was only natural for her to greet her politely. She knew that Serena had come to scold her. But she wasn't afraid of Serena at all, so she didn't bother to sound humble. "Is this how you should greet your elder, Celeste York?" Serena threw the teacup, which hit Celeste's shoulder. It fell onto the ground with a "crack". Celeste looked around. Edna wasn't around. Serena probably found an excuse to make Edna leave the house. A few bodyguards stood at the entrance of the house. They were not the ones working at their house. "We're in the 21st century. Are you expecting me to bow at you when I greet you?" She thought that she was being polite enough. Serena was obviously trying to cause a scene by asking her that question. Her shoulder was hurting. It would probably become swollen. "You've been married to Damon for a few months. Not only have you neve
Damon's net worth was over hundreds of billions. Naturally, he owned more than one property. He was still mad at Celeste last night, so he stayed somewhere else. He felt empty when he woke up in the morning. Most of his anger had now vanished. He should head back home. Liam said that Celeste took some pills for depression yesterday, so Damon didn't know what her situation was now. Edna only called him once to tell him that she didn't want to eat. Now that she had been uncuffed, she would probably eat, right? Damon dealt with some work at the company before returning just so that he wouldn't look too excited to get home. To his surprise, he got a call from the butler at the Bishop residence. He told Damon that Celeste made Serena so angry that she got hospitalized. Seeing how Leah had slandered Celeste previously, Damon didn't rush to conclusions this time. On his way to the hospital, he checked the surveillance footage on his phone. All the surveillance cameras of the house w
Serena had found an excuse earlier to get Edna out of the house, so Edna called Celeste at noon. She said that she was taking a day off because her husband broke his leg from a fall at the construction site. Celeste's cheek was still swollen. She didn't want Edna to see this awkward side of her, so she transferred a thousand dollars to her. She told Edna to head back to her hometown. Edna was worried about Celeste. She kept telling Celeste to eat well, to which Celeste agreed offhandedly.Damon didn't know that Edna was on leave. When it was dinnertime, nobody came upstairs to knock on his door. So, he didn't head down to eat. Extremely frustrated, he locked himself up in the study. A book on philosophy by Schopenhauer was wide open on the table. It belonged to Celeste. "What's the use of reading all this stuff when she's so pretentious and troublesome?" Annoyed, Damon gritted his teeth. He slammed the book shut and stuffed it back onto her half of the bookshelf. Amongst t
Damon went back to their room after reading her diary. He thought that this woman would go to him and sweetly ask for his forgiveness. He waited for her till midnight, but she never went upstairs. He glanced down from the second floor to find Celeste smoking while curled up on the couch. She smoked one cigarette after another. He had no idea what was on her mind. But she was bathing in the cloud of smoke, looking distant and sorrowful. She was the one who had made a mistake, yet she was waiting for him to comfort her! What a pretentious woman! Damon was annoyed. But he still headed down quickly. "Am I allowed to sleep?" Celeste stared at Damon, who stood before her in his pajamas. Her eyes were unfocused. There was caution and confusion in her eyes. When had she ever acted in this way before? Even if someone placed a knife on her neck, she wouldn't have looked so wary. "Get your ass up here and sleep. Don't waste the electricity down there." After saying that, Damon
In his arms, Celeste wasn't sleeping well. "Don't go!" she suddenly said. That was what she'd always say in her dreams. Damon was used to hearing that. He pressed Celeste's arm against his chest, attempting to comfort her with his strong and steady heartbeat. She was probably dreaming about her dead mother again. Her mother's death had always bothered Celeste. It had created a stress response in her. Damon held the back of Celeste's neck. He thought that he should send her for treatment again. She had been taking pills too frequently these days. "Don't leave me alone, Damon," she mumbled. Damon was taken aback. "Celeste," he called her in a soft voice. "Do you know what you're talking about?" He didn't know if other couples had pet names for each other. He only called Celeste by two names. He would either call her "baby" when they were making love or her regular name on usual days. They were closer to each other than anyone else. But they'd seem distant and awkward at
In the afternoon, Celeste finally understood what Damon meant. The quality inspection was conducted earlier by the officials from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This caught the York Group off guard. Mason sent Celeste a checklist stating everything that had to be fixed in the afternoon. The total area requiring proper fireproof windows and fire doors was over ten thousand square feet. Celeste made a brief calculation. Coupled with the cost of disassembling the defective materials, Henry wouldn't be able to earn any profit at all. He'd even have to pay out of his pocket for Radcliffe Group's project. Not only did he have to bear the cost on his own, but he also sacrificed Shannon's image for nothing. He had played with fire. Eventually, he got punished for it. Celeste couldn't suppress her joy when she heard about that news. She immediately called Megan to share the good news with her. "Recently, nine people were killed in Womington because of an issue wi