Chapter : 656

Beck didn’t respond.

Neither did Wynn.

Miles had thought that what he said in the Harper Corporation chat would pique everyone’s interest.

Instead, after the message had been sent for quite a while, no one paid him any attention.

He typed, “Where is everyone? Hello? Anyone there?”

Beck saw it and only then replied, “Busy.”

Wynn watched the exchange and, after a long pause, replied as well, “Busy.”

At that moment, Trevor finally replied, “No time.”

Miles was dumbfounded. “Everyone’s that busy?”

Trevor replied, “Yeah. Talk next time.”

After sending that message, Trevor didn’t reappear in the chat.

Beck really was busy. After exchanging a couple of lines with Miles, he stopped responding as well.

Wynn saw that Trevor had briefly shown up and then gone offline. She didn’t send any more messages to Harper Corporation either. She simply stared at the screen, looking somewhat absent-minded.

Ever since two days ago, when she hadn’t told Trevor, but had privately contacted Jacob to corner him at the dinner, and had tried to kiss him in the car, only to be rejected and then failed to reach him again the following day, she hadn’t contacted Trevor at all.

It wasn’t that she felt awkward about what happened that day. She just felt that she shouldn’t appear in front of Trevor too frequently.

“Wynn?”

While she was lost in thought, Lilian and Ruby returned.

Wynn nodded. Before she could say anything, someone said, “You’re back.”

“Mm.” Harvey nodded as he sat down.

“We ran into an acquaintance just now and heard that the invitations for Beck’s company banquet have already been sent out. Did Beck mention anything to you about the Harper Corporation’s banquet this year?”

With the New Year approaching, partly because of Trevor, they had been receiving quite a few banquet invitations over the past couple of days.

But there had been no word from either Trevor’s side or Beck’s.

For Trevor they figured things might be uncertain this year. But they had assumed they would definitely receive an invitation from the Harper Corporation.

Unexpectedly, they had just learned that some people had already received Harper Corporation’s invitations a few days ago.

Yet they hadn’t received anything. That could only mean that Beck didn’t plan to invite them this year.

Still, Harvey and the others felt that that possibility couldn’t be right.

After all, if it were because Trevor and Wynn’s relationship had changed and Trevor wanted Wynn to gradually fade out of his social circletely instructing Beck. to do this, then how could Miles have sent them an invitation?

So, they assumed that since Wynn and Beck had a good relationship, perhaps the

invitation had been sent directly to Wynn.

Hearing this, Wynn lowered her gaze and replied calmly, “No.”

Harvey, Lilian, and Ruby were all taken aback.

Only then did they realize that Beck truly had no intention of inviting them this time.

In their view, the only reason Beck would distance himself from them was that he was still bothered by what happened with Linda.

Ruby and Linda’s expressions immediately turned ugly.

Especially Linda—she bit her lip, her eyes reddening, and quickly ran upstairs.

To be honest, Harvey and Lilian hadn’t expected Beck to care so much about Linda’s matter.

They had thought that no matter what, he would still send them an invitation for Wynn’s sake.

Who would have thought…

That said, if Beck had sent the invitation, Linda really might have ended up going along as well.

Lennox sighed. “Looks like next time, not just Linda but even the rest of us need to be more careful, We can’t

mention Linda in front of him anymore.”

Ruby’s expression didn’t look good, but this time it really was her daughter’s fault, so she didn’t say anything.

Wynn knew very well that the real reason Beck hadn’t sent invitations to either the Lockets or the Shaws this year wasn’t because of Linda.

In truth, he was using the incident with Linda as a pretext to draw a clear line between himself and her.