Chapter 40

“Yeah, I’m heading back now, Sophia whispered, “Gotta hang up.”

And then she hung up the phone.

Brandon slowly put down his phone only when the busy signal “beep beep” hit his ears, glancing at the screen.

The phone had already gone back to the lock screen.

He unlocked it and, on the call log page, that dialed number was still just a string of digits.

That string of digits had been saved in Brandon’s contacts for eight years.

A number he jotted down in his youth, during the time he reconnected with Sophia, he almost never dialed it, even though he knew it by heart without having to save it

Brandon couldn’t tell why he never called in those years. He often thought of Sophia, remembered how she stood. quietly at the podium, introducing herself with her unique soft voice, “Hi everyone, I’m Sophia.” Every time he thought of her, he couldn’t help but fish out the number, but he never actually dialed it.

regretfully informed everyone that Sophia couldn’t make

loss and anger, there was the complex feeling that Sophia was not

anger and complex disappointment, every time he faced the number, he never followed through with the

that Sophia must have

out she kept

her number like the back of his hand, but as for his own number

back to her polite “Hello, who’s this? on the

time she had responded with “Hello, who’s this?

appeared at the turn of the stairwell in the

cars parked in front of the building, and she couldn’t spot Brandon’s

the driver’s seat,

glanced around but didn’t notice Brandon’s car, and as she turned to head in a different direction, Brandon

Brandon inside the car.

see your car just now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice as she got

that Sophia had always been like this. During their school days, upon their reunion, and even during the two years they were married, she never seemed overly affectionate or clingy. It was as if she was always polite

the first time, Brandon realized that he

fact, he even despised

but glance at

by his stare, asked,

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