Ex-husband’s Regret by Lean

I was completely dumbfounded.

I looked at the email over and over again as if I was trying to confirm something.

I wasn't seeing things.

Jessica suddenly became the director of the Design Department, my superior.

"Do you know her, Charlotte?"

Jane could tell that something wasn't right. She reached out and waved her in front of my eyes as she tried to guess what was going on.

I put down my phone. "Yes, she's Ryan's stepsister that I told you about before."

After graduation, my roommates went their separate ways. But Jane and I had been good friends throughout university. We promised each other to stay in Jelaston and not go anywhere else.

"Fuck! So she got this position because she's Ryan's stepsister?" cursed Jane.

I was rendered speechless.

'She's probably more than just his stepsister,' I said inwardly.

"Is Ryan out of his mind?" Jane continued to complain. "Why does she get to be the director? I've never heard of her in the design industry before, but Ryan just gave her the position of director. What about you? What are you to him..."

"Alright, alright." I interrupted and said softly, "It's not important at all. He'll give it to me when he wants to."

'There would be someone else giving me this position even if he didn't want to,' I added inwardly.

We were in the canteen, so it wasn't necessary to say some things out loud.

It was to prevent others from using my words to make a fuss.

Jane knew me well enough to know what I was thinking about.

After leaving the canteen, she looked around to make sure that there was no one around us and then asked sneakily, "Have you got other plans?"

I cocked my brows. "Have a guess."

"Please tell me, Charlotte."

of. But I haven't

jobs over

Frost Group was more like my

or something to happen before I made up my mind to

returning to my office, I went back to the designing of the New Year's limited

be a director's job, but since the director resigned, it became the deputy director's job. I had no

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

assistant, Nancy Lister, knocked on the door, walked into the room, and placed a cup of coffee on

on a puzzled face. "Charlotte, how can you still be so calm? I've heard that the

to laugh or smile

mad? Of course, I'm mad. But there's no way that I would

special assistant's voice sounded outside. His

see everyone that was happening outside through the French

wearing a tailored dark suit with one hand in his pocket. Him standing

to him, the two of them looked like

graceful. She looked at the man next to her as if asking

but

director of the Design Department, Jessica Frost. I hope you all will get along with her in

listen to him. I'm very easygoing. I won't set any strict rules. I'm new here, so if there's anything that you think I haven't done well enough,

the CEO backing her up,

places. Look, is this an awards ceremony or something? Congratulations on winning the 'Getting Something for Nothing' award?" I was in a bad mood at the beginning, but after

my office, Ryan led Jessica to the door of the

alright, what else have you got to worry about? Who would dare to come over with that cold face of yours around?" Jessica

cup of coffee and took

Knock! Knock!

of Jessica's office, Ryan came to

as if wanting to see

you another cup of coffee."

so she's a little nervous. That's why she asked

introduce her to everyone and then used some simple interactions to make others think that she had a complicated relationship with Ryan. Although she said that she was "easygoing", it was still hard for people to behave casually around her with Ryan backing her

you, but you're her senior in the company.

me and gently massaged my shoulders trying to comfort me. "You don't need to worry about her. You just have to make sure that no one bullies

"If it's really like what you said, why is she the director and

said those words, I realized that I