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.

years Every time his finger hovered over the call button, memories of the graduation party when the teacher regretfully informed everyone that Sophia couldn’t make

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

complex disappointment, every time he faced the number,

must have changed her number

she kept

his own number which hadn’t changed in eight years, Sophia didn’t seem to

“Hello, who’s this? on the phone just

with “Hello, who’s this? She genuinely

of the stairwell in the teaching building, quietly looking

front of the

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

turned to head in a different direction,

followed the sound and saw Brandon inside the car. She walked

I didn’t see your car just now.” Sophia apologized with a warm voice as she got

faintly remembered 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

realized that he actually didn’t like this kind of

he even despised

help but

his

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