Chapter 4

Sophia chuckled awkwardly, “I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, just happened to walk by. I’m really sorry for causing such a hassle for you and your folks This whole marriage was a comedy of errors, anyway. We’re from different worlds You’ve got your own true love, and I’ve got my pride. Your parents can’t stand me, and I’m not about to twist myself into a pretzel to fit in. So, let’s just call it quits, shall we?”

Brandon’s eyes were locked onto her, his lips pressed into a thin line, silent.-

Sophia held his gaze quietly too.

I know my family background and personal circumstances might not be up to par with yours, but there’s someone out there who’ll think I’m the bee’s knees. I won’t force a square peg into a round hole, Sophia said with a smile, “I wish you and Yolanda all the best May you lovebirds find your happily ever after.”

Brandon remained silent

Sophia didn’t push the conversation further. She offered a polite smile and turned to head back to her room.

“Yolanda is Mr. Frost’s youngest daughter. She went missing when she was five. I was the one who lost sight of her, Brandon suddenly spoke up

Sophia turned around in surprise

“If she’s still alive, she’d be about your age, he continued, locking eyes with her.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know about her.” Sophia instinctively apologized.

“It’s fine,” Brandon cut her off. “There’s no issue of one of us not being good enough for the other. I’m sorry I didn’t take better care of you”

“It’s my fault, Sophia said.

“It’s not on you,” Brandon exhaled softly, regaining his usual composure, “I’ll have the lawyers handle the divorce, and make sure the assets are divided fairly

“No need,” Sophia declined with a smile, “It really wasn’t anything to do with me anyway.”

Brandon didn’t respond, just watched her quietly from a short distance, his gaze as deep and still as a dark, bottomless pool

Sophia’s smile faltered, her hand gesturing towards the back, “Well. I’ll be off then”

forward and enveloped her

her ear, then quickly

watching his retreating figure. His tall silhouette, stretched by the lights,

was the Brandon

chuckle, but soon her

but for some reason, she couldn’t, and her throat was

her head back, she forced the tears back and, upon returning to her room, she deleted Brandon’s WhatsApp

lucky. Her

country, Sophia found

saw her brother Aaron Yearwood lounging on the couch playing video games, looking

worker in his student days. but as the only son their mother Laura Yearwood had spoiled him

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gripe about the low salary not worth his time, or claim his boss was a bonehead who didn’t get him in the end, it was always someone else’s fault, never his. So, seven or eight years post-graduation, he had achieved

mother Laura, busy in the kitchen, did and immediately came out, her eyes

up instinctively toward Sophia’s back, Is Brandon

seeing Brandon, he then asked Sophia, “Did you two have

Sophia replied, “No.”

the coffee table, Oh right, did you talk to him? Tell him to give me that resort project. They need someone to do

The sales office has been on our backs, urging us to put down a deposit. If we don’t do it this week, someone else will snatch up

have the money, you buy

were thinking of asking Brandon to

to borrow one million just like that, with no way to pay it back That’s not

the resort project, he’ll have

Aaron picked up the thread, “you can count on us. We don’t

back with interest.

project? You’ve got no experience, no connections, no

that Brandon’s family was involved in real estate. After hearing from his fair-weather friends that construction was lucrative, he quickly set up a construction company with zero experience, hoping to score projects through her and

plan to do the work himself but to subcontract it at a higher price, then offload it to

game he was playing and his real caliber. She’d always shut him down, keeping

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