By the time she finished her work and snapped out of it, Celeste suddenly realized that Caleb had already left his seat without her noticing.
Afterward, Celeste worked day and night for several more days before everything was finally resolved.
She slept for a full 24 hours before she started to feel significantly better. However, compared to before she entered the base, she still looked noticeably paler.
That day, she had mostly just slept and hadn't eaten much at all.
By evening, she started feeling hungry, and as she headed to the cafeteria to get some food, she ran into Caleb coming from the other dormitory wing.
Caleb was slightly surprised to see her. "I thought you had already left the base."
This mission had been a major one, so he could roughly guess when she had arrived. Now that the situation was successfully wrapped up, he assumed she'd left yesterday, having completed her task.
Celeste shook her head. "There's still something I need to handle, so I have to stay a few more days."
She was indeed supposed to leave yesterday, but Zachary still had some matters that required her help to handle personally, so…
Caleb gave her a warm smile and nodded, indicating he understood.
Seeing how drowsy she still looked, he figured she'd probably just woken up after a day-long sleep.
He smiled slightly but didn't ask much. Instead, he asked, "On your way to eat?"
"...Mm."
"Want to go together?"
Given the situation, Celeste couldn't really refuse, so she nodded, "Okay..."
After getting their food, they sat down across from each other.
Caleb watched her.
Caleb looked at her and said softly, "Alright."
Celeste was about to leave, but just as she was turning away, her gaze briefly met his, which made her pause.
She saw the reluctance in his eyes.
She hesitated and lowered her gaze before looking away. After a moment's pause, Celeste softly said "Goodbye" before quickly walking off.
Caleb truly was reluctant to see her go.
Because in the next few days, he would be leaving the base for another assignment elsewhere and wouldn't be back for a while.
By then, Celeste would likely have already left.
Their next meeting probably wouldn't be for another month...

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Breaking Point of Love (Celeste and Trevor)
Did Trevor shut down the internet? If he does it, he's truly the biggest whore I've ever seen in my life... This guy raised my blood pressure throughout 800 chapters...
ok im done im not reading this trash anymore its repetitive celeste finally speaks and its less than 5 words.this isn't good at all and now we're getting the netizens pov but not hers. EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION EXCEPT HER AND TREVOR...
I’m not liking where this is headed.. I’m getting the sense that the author is following the revenging husband storyline and Trevor did all this just to avenge his wife...
Isn't this a company that Celeste and Matthias work for? This will be a fatal blow to those scoundrels....
I'm so excited for tomorrow! I wonder what happened to Jo... What is the story behind that court summons?...
A court summons? Oh my God, what happened?...
Here we go again…drip-drop. One page a day instead of the promised 5 Chapters and even that stops suddenly so we never know if the story will advance. I swear this author is writing the new page on their lunch break and laughing at us when we get frustrated....
I feel like reading the novel from everyone else's perspective, but the main characters. There has never been a glimpse on Trevor's side of thoughts or intentions. He feels like a ghost in this whole storyline. Although i am glad that Mathias revealed the truth about Celeste, but it still feels empty without main character's thoughts or feelings or voices being shared....
Wynn's reputation is over. I read all these chapters for this moment... I'm really glad that Matthias finally said everything at once. All thanks to the fool Quinton...
So we're going to keep going in circles atp,nothing was revealed that we didn't already know,I mean I would've at least liked to see Trevor's reaction to finding out his wife is the co-owner and coder to CUAP,find out who drugged them.Whats happening with the military blacksite,how come Celeste is so quiet she never stands up for herself. All we're getting is reaction's from side character's who don't matter...