Celeste turned to look up at Damon. She wasn't wearing makeup, and her face still bore traces of bruising.There was a small cut on her dry, cracked lips. Her eyes sparkled under the dim light.As Damon saw her delicate face, he suddenly felt the urge to kiss her."When did you arrive?" she asked."A while ago."Following his instincts, he lowered his head and kissed her.In the dry autumn air, Celeste's lips had a slightly coarse texture that tickled Damon.He initially intended for a brief kiss but found himself unable to stop.Dizzy from the kiss, Celeste instinctively held onto Damon's neck."Breathe, darling." Damon couldn't help but chuckle as he looked at her blushed face in his arms. Why did he have to remind her every time?Suddenly, a crisp sound of a shattered water cup came from nearby. Damon turned to see Leah standing at the office door, her eyes already red."Leah, haven't you left work?" Damon greeted awkwardly.Leah turned and ran out in tears."You made L
Leah, in a drunken state, was crying and causing a scene on the rooftop.Damon took advantage of the moment when she wasn't expecting it and firmly pulled her away from the edge."Danny, please don't be with someone else. I love you, I can't be without you ..." Leah said incoherently as she held onto Damon tightly.Since Damon was unable to shake her off, he tried to persuade her."Leah, please calm down. Let me take you home."At that moment, a sense of guilt unexpectedly washed over him."I'm not going home." Leah clung tightly to him."I'm married, Leah.""You're mine, you can't marry anyone else!" Leah continued to cry and hold onto Damon.Reluctantly, Damon directed Jasper to drive them to the hospital.Meanwhile, Nicholas, who was having a peaceful sleep, was abruptly disturbed."What's wrong with your Celeste ..." Nicholas started to question but paused. He was astonished as he saw Leah in Damon's arms."Really, Damon? Late at night, you're not with Celeste but with
"Given Damon's status, how could there be just one car?"A 90 million dollar Christie's Pink Diamond was offered as a gift, yet Celeste had to walk down the mountain?"There are plenty of cars, but I don't want to use his things without permission," Celeste replied truthfully.Despite having only met Winston a few times, she felt an oddly familiar connection. This allowed her to relax her guard and speak freely.Winston had his eyes on the road ahead."You two are married; you can use everything he owns. Money, power, connections … they're yours to use as you please.""If you've investigated me, you should know I didn't marry Damon through honorable means.""So what?" Winston glanced at her.Through their interactions, he believed Celeste's marriage to Damon wasn't solely for the reasons he had just mentioned."Since I forced him to marry me, I shouldn't take advantage of his money.""Would you believe it if I told you that money is the least important thing to him?"Winston
Leah suffered from alcohol poisoning and caused a scene at the hospital.Damon stayed up all night, accompanying her during the IV treatment until she fully regained consciousness the next afternoon."Danny," Leah called out from the hospital bed."I've arranged a day off for you. The driver will take you home today to rest, and you can return to work tomorrow," Damon said as he stood up from the chair beside her hospital bed. His coat was rumpled from holding her. It gave him a messy appearance."Sorry, Danny. I saw you being affectionate with Celeste. I just ... I can't accept it," Leah sobbed. In the past, Damon would have sympathized with her tears. Now, he felt Leah cried too much. Celeste handled tears gracefully, unlike Leah. Leah knew how to trigger a man's protective instinct while Celeste never wanted to appear weak in front of him.Suddenly, Damon remembered the night when Celeste had cried on the roadside due to Caleb's heart problem, and it tugged at his heart.
Damon had a hunch that things were not as simple as they seemed. After hanging up the phone, he absentmindedly opened Twitter.Three out of the top ten Twitter trends were about him and Leah! Despite being Taverdale's wealthiest, Damon's popularity was comparable to those of celebrities. He usually kept an eye out for paparazzi but failed to detect them during yesterday's emergency. The trending headlines were sensational, and the images were misleading. Some clearly showed Leah holding onto him, while others portrayed them intimately kissing. Damon and Leah's story was well-known, and when Leah married into wealth, millions of netizens sympathized with Damon. Now, it was a carnival on the internet.One of the top comments with the most likes read, "If it's meant to be, it will be. Love feels real again!"Another was, "As long as it's you in the end, waiting a bit longer is alright."It was all nonsense! Damon's face darkened as he scrolled through the comments.He dialed ba
Cheryl hauled Celeste out of her seat. "Who do you think you are? How dare you try to steal Ms. Sullivan's man? You only got into Prestige because you slept with Mr. Bishop!" As Cheryl spoke, she gave Celeste a hard shove. Because of how weak and lean she was, Celeste staggered and fell backward. "Stop it, Cheryl!" A girl who had been spectating from the side stood up. Anxious, she attempted to break Celeste's fall. Out of nowhere, someone beat her to it. Celeste was caught by a pair of strong arms. "Mr., Mr. Bishop." The girl quickly greeted him. Everyone at the scene stood up hurriedly with awkward looks on their faces. "What's going on?" With his hand around Celeste's waist, he asked the girl. "Cheryl was bullying Celeste." "I wasn't! Hear me out, Mr. Bishop. It was Celeste who—" Cheryl wanted to defend herself. But she could barely speak when she saw the petrifying look on Damon's face. She could no longer retain her arrogant attitude."Of course you were! Everyone s
After zoning out for half an afternoon at work, Celeste still couldn't make up her mind. She really didn't want to head home. So she called a cab and went to the hospital. Caleb was on his iPad. When he saw her arrive, he quickly turned it off and placed it beside him. His eyes were bloodshot as if he just cried. People who just underwent a heart transplant couldn't afford to have mood swings. "Why did you cry?" She asked. "It's nothing." Caleb didn't want to tell her. Celeste took the iPad. She knew Caleb's password. When she turned it on, it displayed one of the trending searches on Damon and Leah. "Why are you reading this?" She didn't know Caleb was on Twitter too. "Shannon sent it to me." "Do you have Shannon's WhatsApp contact?" "No. I don't know where she got my number from, but she sent the link to me via text." Caleb was in low spirits. Hanging his head low, he teared up. "Celeste, how could you tolerate this kind of thing? If it's Damon who paid for my s
The two found a casual dining restaurant to have a meal there. The shop was so small that there wasn't even a designated parking space for customers. Winston could only park his Bentley on the roadside. It looked really incongruous there. "You've never eaten at a diner before, have you?" Celeste poured some fries onto Winston's plate. Winston found her action funny and adorable. He had certainly experienced this before. It was exactly the way he lived before his 20s. "I get this strange feeling whenever I meet you," he said carefully. "What is it?" "You give me the impression that I secretly have a daughter somewhere out there, with whom I was just recently acquainted." "Pfft—" Celeste almost choked on her own saliva. "I'm almost 22 years old this year. Don't even think about taking advantage of me," she said. She couldn't help but laugh. The two took more than three hours to finish their meal. Damon called her in the middle of their meal, but Celeste rejected his call.