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

had never switched jobs

more like

something to happen

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

since the director resigned, it became the deputy director's job. I had no choice but to speed things

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

heard that the new director didn't even need to go through any procedures and just took the

to laugh or smile and was at

But there's no way that I

everyone..." The special assistant's voice sounded

everyone that was happening outside

tailored dark suit with one hand in his pocket. Him

next to him, the two of them looked like

She looked at the man next to her as if

but

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

easygoing. I won't set any strict rules. I'm new here, so if there's anything that

the CEO backing her up, there obviously

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 hearing her

Jessica to the door of the

worry about? Who would dare to come over with that cold face of yours around?" Jessica pushed Ryan intimately. Her words

of coffee and took a sip. 'So

Knock! Knock!

pushed out of Jessica's office,

him as if

cup of coffee."

into my office slowly 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 asked with a smile.

to 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

company. You're better than her at designing and

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

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

I said those words, I realized that