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."

of. But I haven't made up

switched jobs over the

Frost Group was more like my

strong push or something to happen before I made up my mind to

to my office, I went back to the designing of the New Year's limited edition and

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

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

the afternoon, my assistant, Nancy Lister, knocked on the door, walked into

my design and put on a puzzled face. "Charlotte, how can you still be so calm? I've heard that the new director didn't even

whether to laugh or smile and

mad? Of course, I'm mad. But there's no way that I would say

The special assistant's voice

was happening

wearing a tailored dark suit with one hand in his pocket. Him standing there alone gave others

next to him, the two of them looked like a

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

impatiently, but

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

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

up, there obviously wouldn't

this an awards ceremony or something? Congratulations on winning the

to the

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

coffee and took

Knock! Knock!

Jessica's

if wanting to see through his

you another cup of coffee."

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. "I

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 casually around

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

need to worry about her. You just have to make sure that no one bullies her. Is that alright?" This was

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

those words, I realized that I had been