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

jobs over the

more

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

of the New Year's limited edition and didn't

since the director resigned, it became the

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

door, walked into the room, and placed a cup of coffee on

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 position. Aren't

whether to laugh or smile and was

I'm mad. But there's no way that I would

The special assistant's voice sounded outside. His name was

everyone that was happening outside through the French

one hand in his pocket. Him standing there alone gave others

two

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

impatiently, but didn't say

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

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

up, there obviously wouldn't

on winning

led Jessica to the

come over with that cold face of yours around?" Jessica pushed

coffee and took a sip.

Knock! Knock!

out of Jessica's office, Ryan

stared at him as if wanting to

cup of coffee."

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

to make others think that she had a complicated relationship with Ryan. Although she said that

company. You're better than her at designing and people

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 first time that I found it hard to control my temper in front

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

soon as I said those words, I realized that I had been too