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."

I haven't made

switched jobs

Group was more like my comfort

a strong push or something to happen before I

back to the designing of the New Year's limited

the director resigned, it became the deputy director's job. I had no

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

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. Aren't you

didn't know whether to laugh or smile and was at a

mad. But there's no way that I would

assistant's voice sounded outside.

was

hand in his pocket. Him standing there alone gave others

to him, the two of them looked like a perfect

elegant and graceful. She looked at the man next to her as

but

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

She then said with a gentle smile, "Don't listen to him. I'm very easygoing. I won't set any strict rules.

backing her up,

have friends in high places. Look, is this an awards ceremony or something? Congratulations on winning the 'Getting

Jessica to

come over with that cold face of yours around?" Jessica pushed Ryan intimately. Her words might be disdainful, but she

up a cup of coffee and took

Knock! Knock!

out of Jessica's office, Ryan

as if

another cup of coffee." Nancy

slowly and closed the door. He then explained casually, "This is her first job, so she's a little nervous.

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

senior in the company. You're better than her at designing and people of this department

don't need to worry about her. You just have to make sure that no one bullies her. Is that alright?" This was the first time that I found it hard to control my temper in front of

it's really like what

as I said those words, I