Chapter 2

Brandon bee-lined home.

It was his first time ducking out of work to head back

His pad, spick and span, no longer had any traces of Sophia, except for that divorce agreement on the coffee table, all mussed up by the breeze.

Brandon reached for it

The agreement was straightforward. Sophia didn’t want a thing. What was hers before the marriage stayed hers after

Her signature was already on the dotted line

Her handwriting was gorgeous, all flowy and elegant.

Brandon zoned out staring at the signature on the divorce papers.

No clue how much time had passed when the rustling sound of the door opening snapped him back to reality

Brandon whipped his head toward the entrance.

Patricia had just stepped in, and his sudden glance startled her big time

“What’s up?” she asked, puzzled, clearly noticing the flicker of hope on Brandon’s face slowly fade into dead calm.

“Nothing much, he replied coolly. “What brings you here?”

“I was worried Sophia might be bored stiff at home alone, just dropped by to keep her company, Patricia said with a smile, moving towards him, “What’s with the sudden home run today? Something up with Sophia?”

As she spoke, her brows furrowed with concern, her head turning towards the room.

“She’s fine, Brandon said, looking at her, “Do you drop by often?”

“Not really, just now and then.”

Patricia’s face was painted with awkward embarrassment, and upon finishing her sentence, she saw Brandon’s brow furrow

She quickly changed the subject to the papers in Brandon’s hand “What’s that?”

Reaching to grab them, but before her fingertips could touch the documents, Brandon pressed them down first.

“It’s nothing. Brandon said, looking at Patricia, “No need for you to come over if there’s no issue. Sophia’s got her work. cut out for her. We’ll come visit you when we get the chance.”

“She, Patricia began, almost blurting out “What work could she possibly have?” but quickly bit her tongue, “Alright then.

She couldn’t help but remind Brandon, Sophia’s been recuperating for over a year and still no baby bump. I hope she hasn’t got some lingering issues. Have her get checked at the hospital when she can. I wouldn’t want troubles with having kids later.

Brandon said. “It’s the kid I didn’t want.”

Patricia looked at him, baffled

Brandon issued the boot. “You better head back, and don’t come around unless it’s necessary.”

Patricia’s mouth hung open, wanting to protest, but ultimately, she shut it under Brandon’s icy stare, and turned to leave.

Brandon watched the door close, glanced around the house now devoid of Suphia’s presence, heaved a long sigh, picked up his phone, and dialed his assistant Kent. “Kent, set up a meeting with the lawyer, gotta sort out this divorce

Huh? Kent was taken aback. Wasn’t it just yesterday he’d sent Sophia over? They didn’t seem to be at odds.

Brandon hall aiready hung up, tossing the divorce papers on the coffee table and stepping out the door

Sophia moved back to her smell suburban house.

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She’d bought it before getting hitched, just the right size for her solo living.

place where she and Brandon had their one-night stand,

couldn’t resist her buddy Susan Cooper’s begging

would’ve thought Brandon, the guy who never showed up to these things,

chats or reunions. They were like ships passing in the night, briefly crossing paths before vanishing

Brandon had vanished

Sophia casually prodded her high school

to voice was swirling in her chest, but she never found the courage to spill it, even talking to him was stiff and

she hid behind eating

volunteered to take her home

uptake, caught her and in the inertia of the moment, she ended up in his arms.

hook-ups. She’d never even had a boyfriend, but that night, she got lost in Brandon’s deep. soft,

and the man she’d fantasized

the fullest, both inexperienced but

expected Brandon to be as green

family background and looks, it was impossible he couldn’t

had been single a man wholly devoted

him a stickler

night was probably the only slip-up in

And for Sophia, too.

life all mapped

looking to get some advanced training and was already getting her ducks in a row to apply to the School of Architecture

never saw it coming.

night, and because they let loose a little too much, they both overslept the next day.

to, she didn’t have time to swing by the pharmacy for the morning-after pill. She was also kind of ng her fingers, hoping that she was in the clear since it was supposedly

was pregnant,

having

Brandon in the first place, but as luck would have it, she

bit red-faced and wanted to keep the test results under wraps, but it was too

of the HCG report she was hiding behind her back, and reached out

“Let me see

a simple, calm sentence, but it was

handed over

staring at the report for a bit, Brandon

hadn’t anticipated this baby, and its

getting married and having the baby, Brandon said. “But the ball’s in your

“Getting married?”

gobsmacked. She thought Brandon was pulling her leg, but then she saw him nod earnestly,

couple of days to mull

on Brandon for years, but she never imagined that one

Brandon, “So, let’s tie the knot.” Just like during a divorce, he simply

day, they picked up

somehow it all fell

Sophia never imagined that she and the kid

expect her marriage to Brandon to fizzle

a whirlwind start and

past two years felt like

by familiar things in her house, Sophia felt an aching

tripped over a shoe and he caught her, the intense look in his

in his eyes, and even now, her

thought that

harbored feelings for many years,

case. He was just a bit

heart ached with this

his father in the study a few days ago when she was visiting

so happened that she was pregnant with. your child, so I didn’t say much. It gave your grandpa peace, but it’s been two years, and that child wasn’t

my reasons. Mind your

and look at you. Because of Yolanda Frost, you wouldn’t date anyone, and then you go

off his father Daniel Crawley, his tone icy. This

jump to her defense I’m

“She’s never coming back”

could detect a different emotion in his usually calm demeanor. Clearly, this “Yolanda girl

the first time Sophia had heard the name Yolanda, and she felt

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