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 up my mind

switched jobs over

Group was more like

needed a strong push or something to happen before I made up

my office, I went back to the designing of the New Year's limited edition and didn't

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

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

a puzzled face. "Charlotte, how can you still be so calm? I've heard that the new director didn't even need to

laugh or smile and was at

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

assistant's voice sounded outside. His name

was

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

to him, the two of them looked like

looked at the man next to her as if

but didn't say

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

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

CEO backing her up, there obviously wouldn't be

on winning the 'Getting Something for Nothing' award?" I was in a bad mood at the beginning, but after hearing her sarcastic words, I couldn't help but

Jessica to the door

Who 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 smile

cup of coffee and took a sip. 'So

Knock! Knock!

Jessica's

if wanting to see

of coffee." Nancy quickly left the

and closed the door. He then explained casually, "This is her first job, so she's a little nervous. That's why she asked

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. Although she said that she was "easygoing", it was still hard for people to behave casually

she's 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

worry about her. 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 my temper in front of

really like what you said, why is she

words, I