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."

haven't made

jobs over

Frost Group was more

something to happen before

returning to my office, I went back to the designing of the New

became the deputy director's job. I had no

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

at my design and put on a puzzled face. "Charlotte, how can you still be so calm? I've heard that the new director didn't even need to go through any procedures and just took the director's position.

or smile and was

there's no way that I would say

assistant's voice sounded outside. His name was

everyone that was happening

hand in his

next to him, the two

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

frowned impatiently, but didn't say

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

then gave Ryan a coquettishly look. "What's up with the straight face?" She then said with a gentle smile, "Don't listen to him. I'm very easygoing. I won't set any strict rules. I'm new here, so if there's anything that

CEO backing her up, there obviously

but pout her lips. "Looks like she does have friends in high 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

led Jessica to the door of

cold face of yours around?" Jessica pushed Ryan intimately. Her words might be disdainful, but she still had a big

of coffee and

Knock! Knock!

out of Jessica's office, Ryan came

if wanting to see through

you another cup of coffee." Nancy quickly left

and closed the door. He then explained casually, "This is her first job, so she's a little nervous. That's why she asked me to back her up." "Really?" I

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

but you're her senior in the company. You're better than her at designing and people

just have to make sure that no one bullies her.

pushed his hand away, stood up, and asked straightforwardly, "If it's really

words, I realized that I had been