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."

But I haven't made

never switched jobs

Group was more

a strong push or something to happen before I made

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

resigned, it became the deputy director's job.

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

still be so calm? I've heard that the new director

or smile and was at

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

assistant's voice sounded outside. His name was

that was happening outside through

a tailored dark suit with one hand in his pocket.

two of them

graceful. She looked at the man next to her

frowned impatiently, but didn't

the new director of the Design Department, Jessica

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 you think I haven't done well

backing her up, there obviously wouldn't

or something? Congratulations on winning

office, Ryan led Jessica to the door of the director's

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

picked up a cup of coffee and took a sip.

Knock! Knock!

being pushed out of Jessica's office,

him as if

another cup of coffee."

casually, "This is her first job, so she's a little nervous. That's why she asked me to back her up." "Really?" I asked with a

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

a few years older than you, but you're her senior in the company. You're better than her at designing and people of this department would

to make sure that no one bullies her. Is that alright?" This was the first time that I found it hard to control my

asked straightforwardly, "If it's really like what you said, why is she

as I said those words, I realized that I had