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

jobs over the past

Frost Group was more like my comfort

needed a strong push or something to happen before I

went back to the designing of

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

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

or smile and was at a

course, I'm mad. But there's no way that I would say anything to my subordinates,'

assistant's voice sounded outside. His name was

was

suit with one hand in his pocket. Him

Jessica next to him, the two of them looked like a

looked elegant and graceful. She looked at the man

frowned impatiently, but

then said indifferently, "This is the new director of the Design Department, Jessica Frost. I hope you all will get along

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 you think I haven't done well enough, you're welcome

her up, there obviously wouldn't be any

on winning the 'Getting Something for Nothing' award?" I was in a bad

led Jessica to the door of the director's

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

up a cup of coffee and took a sip. 'So

Knock! Knock!

Jessica's office,

stared at him as if wanting to see through his

you another cup of coffee." Nancy quickly

then explained casually, "This is her first job, so she's a little nervous. That's why she asked me to back her up."

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

her senior in the company.

behind me and gently massaged my shoulders trying to comfort me. "You don't need to worry about her. You just have to make sure that no one bullies her. Is that alright?" This was the

stood up, and asked straightforwardly, "If it's really like what

I realized that I had been