The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 49

Chapter 49

She gave Brandon a puzzled look.

Brandon was gazing back at her his eyes cool and detached.

Sophia realized he was talking about Ivan.

“I’ve got no clue,’ she said. She hadn’t gotten close to Ivan, never played the lovey-dovey couple, and had no idea if he met her expectations in a romance.

But to Brandon, her answer rang with a different tune.

“No clue” meant there was room for further observation, perhaps even a chance for development.

He thought Sophia would just say “no,” like she always did to him, straight to the point – no beating around the bush, no

gray areas.

But clearly, Ivan was different in Sophia’s eyes.

This realization only added to the tightness in Brandon’s chest.

He didn’t speak another word, just silently started the engine.

Sophia shot him a glance, feeling a bit at sea. His face was still, calm as a millpond, but the tight lines of his profile betrayed the stormy mood he was emitting.

Brandon kept mum the whole drive back to the hotel.

The car came to a standstill in the underground parking of the hotel.

Once parked, Brandon unfastened his seatbelt but didn’t make a move to get out, just sat there like a statue.

looked at him, taken

didn’t dare to disturb him and whispered, “I’ll head up

turned,

open when suddenly a hand reached

door shut.

Sophia looked towards Brandon as he leaned in,

were deep

didn’t say a word. He just gave her a look, propped his palm against the

Sophia couldn’t say anything.

other hand wrapped around her waist,

slightly parted lips were

was

of marriage had taught Brandon exactly how to

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layer by layer under his deepening

didn’t stand a

and the palpitations he caused while kissing her. Faced with Brandon’s intensifying kisses a mix of fierceness and gentleness, she was overwhelmed by the familiar scent and warmth between

showed no signs

Chapter 49

her hair, firmly cradling her neck and head, tilting it back slightly as his heavy breath filled the compact

Brandon kissed her

intensity was rare, as

couldn’t fathom it. Her increasingly oxygen-starved brain tumed all her resistance into feeble

tongue caressing hers, his breath gradually

but didn’t pull away entirely, his palm still gently cupping her cheek, forehead resting. against hers, nose to nose, sharing a breath He looked into Sophia’s hazy eyes, his fingertips gently caressing her cheek as he spoke in a raspy voice, “Sophia, can’t we just

hard to speak. She could only take small gasps of air, trying

lips, his soft voice coaxing her gaze,

why?” Sophia asked breathlessly, “You’ve been acting strange these past few

you ending up with another man someday. I don’t want to see

him, repeating her

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