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 up my

had never switched jobs

more like

to happen before I

back to the designing of the New Year's limited edition and didn't have a nap

be a director's job, but since the director resigned, it became the deputy director's job.

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

it was nearly two o'clock in the afternoon, my assistant, Nancy Lister, knocked on the door, walked into the room, and placed a cup

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

laugh or smile and

mad. But there's no way that I would say

assistant's voice sounded

that was happening outside

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

two of them looked like a perfect

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

frowned impatiently, but

director of the Design Department, Jessica Frost. I hope you

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 you

backing her up, there obviously wouldn't be

Congratulations on winning the 'Getting Something for Nothing' award?" I was in a bad mood at the beginning, but after hearing

to

would dare to come over with that cold face of yours around?" Jessica pushed Ryan intimately. Her words might be disdainful, but she still had a big

a cup of coffee and took

Knock! Knock!

out of Jessica's office, Ryan came

as if wanting to see

make you another cup of coffee." Nancy quickly left

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?"

asked the CEO of the company to introduce her to everyone and then used some simple interactions to make others think that she had a complicated relationship with Ryan.

she's a few years older than you, but you're her senior in the company. You're better

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

stood up, and asked straightforwardly, "If it's really like what you said, why is she the director and not

I said those words, I