Chapter 21

She eyed Brandon cautiously, trying to gauge his mood. “Who’s that?”

“Sophia,” he said, his handsome face composed, not bothering with any fake pleasantries.

Susan frowned. “You looking for her for something?”

Brandon didn’t answer, just looked at her, repeating his question: “Where is she?”

Susan shook her head quickly “I don’t know”

Afraid that Brandon might not believe her, she quickly added, “I really don’t know She just went that way, we haven’t been in touch, I really don’t know her address. Susan continued, “you’ve got phones and WhatsApp, right? If you wanna find her, just shoot her a message

But as soon as the words left her mouth, she saw Brandon’s expression go blank again.

He didn’t say anything more, didn’t even ask her to delete the photo, just gave her a look and turned to leave.

Susan didn’t know what did she do wrong, but watching his cold silhouette, she couldn’t help but call out, “Brandon.”

Brandon stopped in his tracks but didn’t turn around.

Susan still looking at his back, asked, “You looking for Sophia for something?”

“Nothing

then don’t bother her anymore, okay? You’ve both chosen to let bygones be bygones, so just leave it

Brandon didn’t respond.

tighten slightly, a bit cold, but he said nothing,

have blown a potential contract

came through for

was going to fall through too, but to her surprise, two days later, Kent suddenly informed her

unexpected, Susan thought she was dreaming and couldn’t help but confirm with Kent over and over, “Mr Crawley really greenlit

confirmations, said, “You think I’ve got nothing better to

want to double-check,” Susan quickly appeased, not wanting to annoy the big shot, and couldn’t help but probe further, “Didn’t Mr. Crawley say before that it needed to

call himself, no need for

call himself, why did we have to

confused. If Brandon could make the decision himself,

added, “Maybe

loudly because just as he finished, he saw

sat up straight and covered the phone’s mouthpiece, lowering his voice, “Alright, I’ve let you know. You guys

thanks, Kent. The voice on the other end was chipper as she cooed a

used to Susan’s saccharine tone

after

a nod of

by Brandon or what, but he knocked on the door with

you wanted

flipped through it, glanced at

was somewhat puzzled.

of the Ephemoran branch, personally appointed by Brandon Kent didn’t understand why Brandon was asking this out of

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