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

had never switched jobs over

Group was more like

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

back to the designing of the New Year's

used to 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."

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 go through any procedures and

smile and was at

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

me, everyone..." The special assistant's voice sounded outside. His name

that was happening outside

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

next to him, the two of them looked like

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

but didn't

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

listen to him. I'm very easygoing. I won't set any strict rules. I'm

up, there obviously

Congratulations on winning

office, Ryan led Jessica to the

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

up a cup of coffee and took a sip.

Knock! Knock!

being pushed out of Jessica's office, Ryan

stared at him as if wanting to see

another cup of coffee." Nancy

slowly and closed the door. He 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 couldn't

to everyone and then used some simple interactions to make others think that she had a complicated relationship with Ryan. Although she said that

you, but you're her senior in the company. You're better than her

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

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

words, I realized that