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.
Winston did say that he would treat her way better than anyone else would and that Damon needn't worry that other men couldn't steal her heart away. Damon clearly had a lot more room for improvement. Seeing how intimate the two were acting, he drove back home without a word. By the time Celeste returned home, he had finished two packs of cigarettes. His throat was so dry that he could barely speak. "You reek of cigarettes. You should go shower now." Celeste froze. But she pretended as if nothing happened and pushed Damon toward the bathroom. "I won't. Hear me out, Celeste." Damon was experiencing a mixture of emotions. He wouldn't let go of her. "You don't have to. You can do whatever you want." That was the decision Celeste made after a whole night of thinking. "But don't ever kiss me with those lips of yours after you kiss somebody else. It's disgusting." She tried her best to speak to him calmly. "Damon, I'm the one benefitting out of this marriage, and I know it. But
Damon was too strong. Celeste's attempt to break free from him was too feeble in Damon's eyes. He held her tight in his arms as he savored her tongue and sucked her lips. He was just too anxious and frustrated. He could only claim Celeste as his woman by doing this. But it wasn't easy to control Celeste. Since she wasn't as strong as him, she bit his tongue hard. The scent of blood spread in their mouths. But Damon merely grunted. He still wouldn't let go of her. The two gasped for air as they kissed for a long while. It lasted so long that Celeste thought she could no longer breathe.When Damon finally released her, she used all her might to slap him. "How dare you bully me!" She said as tears fell down her cheeks. She dashed upstairs without turning back once. Of course, Damon was not allowed to enter the master bedroom that night. He lay down on the bed in the second bedroom. He tossed and turned. He thought about her teary eyes and what she said. Although his feeli
"What a coincidence. Now that he has moved to the villa next to ours, I might just take your advice." Celeste clearly wanted to upset him. As expected, Damon's face hardened. "I'm full." She ate a little before getting up. She was about to leave. "We're leaving together." Damon naturally had no appetite to eat anymore. He stood up and grabbed her hand. Celeste didn't reject him this time. She got into Damon's car. But she never once looked sideways and ignored him all the way. Next to her, Damon was hesitant to speak. But he ultimately said nothing. Celeste finally felt better after angering Damon so many times in a single morning. When she arrived at the entrance, the girl who stood up for her yesterday welcomed her. "Celeste, Mr. Bishop is so manly! He's showing off his love for his wife!" Celeste thought she was talking about how Damon fired Cheryl yesterday. She merely gave the girl a friendly smile without a word. "That's right! The way he resolved the matter just
Leah was having a worse time than Celeste. Because of the alcohol poisoning, she had to be hospitalized for a week. She was much more bloated now after getting an IV drip. "This is the good idea you came up with?" She hated herself for believing Shannon's stupid idea. She thought that she'd be able to get back together with Damon with the media exposure and the netizens' support. But not only did she make things worse by getting hospitalized, Damon even publicly revealed what happened to her on Twitter. She was now known for having alcoholism issues and being suicidal. The perfect image that she had built for herself was all ruined. "You didn't fail this time entirely. Damon and Celeste's relationship must've gotten worse because of this matter. Be more confident in yourself. Damon still has feelings for you. He's just being egged on by Celeste," Shannon said on the phone. "Besides, Camden's arm was removed because of Celeste. Do you think he'd forget about that? That slu