The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

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.

party when the teacher regretfully informed everyone that

hand, after that loss and anger, there was the complex feeling that

every time he faced

Sophia must have changed her number by

out she kept it

his hand, but as for his own number which hadn’t changed

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

with “Hello, who’s this?

turn of the stairwell in

few cars parked in front of

in the driver’s seat, remained still, just watching

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

followed the sound and saw Brandon inside the car. She

just now.” Sophia apologized with a warm

school days, upon their reunion, and even during the two years they were married, she

the first time, Brandon realized that he actually didn’t like

fact, he

couldn’t help but

perplexed by his stare,