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 made up my mind

never switched jobs

was more like my comfort

push or something to happen before I made

to the designing of

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

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

was 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 my table. "Thank you."

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 need to go through any procedures and just took the director's

know whether to laugh or smile and

way that I would say anything to my subordinates,' I

The special assistant's voice sounded

see everyone that was happening outside through the

with one hand in his pocket. Him

two of them looked like

looked at the man

frowned impatiently, but didn't

"This is the new director of the Design Department, Jessica Frost. I hope you all will

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

up, there obviously wouldn't

winning the 'Getting Something for Nothing' award?" I was in a bad mood at the beginning, but after hearing her sarcastic

Ryan led Jessica to the door of the director's

of yours around?" Jessica pushed Ryan intimately. Her words might be disdainful, but she still had a

of coffee and took a sip.

Knock! Knock!

pushed out of Jessica's

at him as if wanting

another cup of coffee." Nancy

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

had a complicated relationship with Ryan. Although she said that she was "easygoing", it was

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

sure that no

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

words, I realized that I