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

had never switched jobs over

Group was more like my

push or something to happen before I

of the New

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

"Charlotte, here's your coffee."

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

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

whether to laugh or smile and was at a

But there's no way that I

The special assistant's voice sounded outside. His name

could see everyone that was happening outside through the French

in his pocket. Him standing there alone gave others

him, the two of them looked

elegant and graceful. She looked at the

impatiently, but

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

"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

up, there obviously wouldn't be any

pout her lips. "Looks like she does have friends in high places. Look, is this an awards ceremony or something? Congratulations on winning the 'Getting Something for Nothing' award?" I was in a bad mood at the beginning, but after hearing her

to the

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

coffee and took a sip.

Knock! Knock!

pushed out of Jessica's

stared at him as if

of

is her first job, so she's a little nervous. That's why she asked me to

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

few years older than you, but you're her senior in the company.

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

his hand away, stood up, and asked straightforwardly, "If it's really like what you said, why is she the

words, I realized that I had