Chapter 120
More than ten years had passed, yet Celeste still remembered everything clearly.
She recalled that day–how she had gone to the restroom, heartbroken, and when she returned, she saw Erin holding two ice creams, one for her and one for Wynn.
One of them had been slightly scraped when a waiter carrying a dirty tray accidentally brushed against it, leaving a bit of grease on it.
Wynn immediately picked the untouched one.
Erin had merely ruffled her hair with a smile. She didn’t bother to replace the dirty one with a new one.
When she returned, Erin handed her the damaged ice cream without saying a word about why a chunk was missing.
At that time, given the Locket family’s financial status, buying not just one but a thousand, even ten thousand ice creams, would have been no issue at all.
Yet, she simply didn’t replace it.
It was at that moment that she became acutely aware–Erin’s feelings for her had long since changed.
She would also never forget the look on young Wynn’s face as she watched her hold that tainted ice cream–so full of malice.
As for Harvey, there were even more incidents like this.
Thinking about it now, she no longer cared about Trevor.
Looking at the ever–kindly Erin and the self–righteous Lilian, who spoke as if they truly had her best interests at heart, she chuckled and responded to them through the matter of Trevor and Wynn.
“You both claim you genuinely care about me. I really want to believe that. But if your idea of caring is helping Wynn interfere in my marriage, then what does that say?”
Upon hearing this, neither Erin nor Lilian showed the slightest hint of embarrassment. They must have expected her to say this.
Erin sighed, “Cel, you know the situation between you and Trevor. Why force someone who doesn’t love you to stay by your side? Getting a divorce allows you to start over. Grandma is-”
“You want to say you’re doing this for my own good, don’t you?” Celeste cut her off.
She looked at them both and said, “You’ve repeated this so many times–don’t you ever get tired of it? Even when you’re trying to brush me off, couldn’t you at least come up with something new?
“How do you expect me to believe you if you don’t even put in that much effort? Maybe next time, try coming up with something new?”
Before they could respond, Celeste continued, “Not that it would make a difference. After all, words are empty. What really matters is what you’ve actually done, right?”
Her retort left Erin and Lilian momentarily speechless.
But Erin remained unfazed. Just as she was about to speak again, Celeste turned to Oscar, who had returned, and said, “Mr. Fletcher, are you done? Shall we leave now?”
Oscar had already sensed that the atmosphere here was off e let out an awkward chuckle, nodding. “Sure.”
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Then he turned to Erin and Lilian. “Madam Locket, Mrs. Locket, we’ll be taking our leave now.”
Erin smiled and nodded, but when she looked at Celeste, she let out another sigh.
Ever since Harvey had decided to divorce her mother, every time she didn’t do as they wanted, he and Erin would sigh when speaking to her.
It was as if she was disobedient and troublesome, and as if all the problems were her fault.
It was so much so that after her parents divorced and she moved back to the Rodriguez family with her mother, Celeste developed a conditioned fear of people sighing at her.
For years, up until she was around 12 or 13, even though everyone in the Rodriguez family treated her well, she had been excessively well–behaved–too afraid to make mistakes, too afraid to be herself.
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