Thorns Grow After Betrayal (Celeste and Chester) novel Chapter 90

Celestine froze, her words trailing off. "Weren't you—"

Mid-sentence, it hit her—Gideon hadn't returned to the office?!

She was doomed. There wasn't even a drop of soup left.

Noticing her sudden silence, Gideon arched a brow. "To wait for your comforting soup, I even sampled some of Grandpa's new culinary creations. Isn't that—"

"Huh?" Celestine quickly cut him off, feigning ignorance to escape the awkward topic.

She blurted out a question that sounded even more clueless. "What did he make?"

Gideon's smile turned frosty. "Pork stir-fried with dragon fruit."

Catching the way Celestine hesitated, he had a sinking feeling that the chicken soup he'd been waiting for would be as cold as his mood.

Celestine managed an awkward smile, scrambling for a compliment. "Well, Clifton certainly has… creativity."

No wonder when she'd opened the door earlier, Mr. Shield had looked positively poisoned.

Did they honestly not worry about food poisoning?

The image of Gideon facing a table full of bizarre dishes with that stone-cold expression almost made Celestine laugh.

Of course, laughing at him wasn't exactly kind.

She bit her lip, fighting back the urge to giggle, determined to make it up to him somehow.

Just then, Cynthia came bounding in from the living room, pretending not to know. "Uncle, what brings you here?"

Gideon looked down at her, unimpressed. "What do you think?"

Cynthia's big eyes sparkled with mischief. "Oh, you didn't go back to the office? I thought you'd be busy tonight. We finished the soup ages ago—scrubbed the pot clean, not even a drop left! I did it myself!"

Her sweet, sing-song voice was enough to make anyone's blood boil. Gideon's expression darkened instantly.

Way to go, Cynthia.

Celestine caught the growing gloom in Gideon's eyes and hurried to clamp a hand over Cynthia's mouth before she could make things worse.

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