The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 81

Brandon didn’t respond. He lingered at the door for a moment, then strode away.

Sophia watched his retreating figure, sitting on the bed motionless, not even realizing when her fingers had hit the answer button on the phone until Susan’s voice, laced with concem, broke through, “Sophia? What’s up?”

Sophia snapped back to reality, peering at her phone screen through a blurry gaze, she saw Susan’s worried face.

“What’s wrong? Susan’s voice softened, tinged with caution.

Sophia shook her head slightly. “It’s nothing.”

Susan asked, “Did Brandon come over?”

Sophia nodded gently, “Yeah.”

“So, did you guys?” She hesitated, glancing at Sophia, wanting to ask if Brandon had managed to stop her, but seeing Sophia clad in the hospital gown with puffy eyes, the words got stuck in her throat. Instead, she shifted to a gentle reassurance, “It’s alright, there’s no hurdle we can’t get over”

Sophia managed a weak smile, “Yeah.”

restaurant near the hospital. He didn’t deliver it himself. He paid for the delivery service and got a waiter to take it up to her. He didn’t leave, just stood at the restaurant

seeing Sophia’s HCG report was still vivid in his mind, the words “Clinical Diagnosis. Early Pregnancy that moved him so much at the moment they caught his eye. He had imagined countless times what their child might look like, whether like him or Sophia, or a mix of both. He had fantasized about every step of raising her, thinking Sophia would keep her

scene of Sophia with tear–filled eyes begging him to let her go. The stomach cramps worsened, but then his thoughts drifted back to that summer years ago when she stood on

time he tutored her, the obedient and tranquil look in her eyes, which were so clearly the eyes of

pocket, crisply tore it

hands paused mid–air, frozen. After a long silence, he withdrew his hands, pocketing the crumpled DNA report

step into

a short distance away, peering through the slightly ajar door at

took a few

the mostly untouched porridge, didn’t approach, just silently observed the Sophia inside the room as she lay down and drifted into a shallow sleep. Only then did he finally enter the ward, bending down to gently tuck her in, not intending to wake

silently, then

her in, “Take a

a soft “Mhm,

the bed for a

he returned, the room was empty, the hospital gown and blanket neatly folded on the bed. Brandon chuckled and shook his head, not bothering to investigate where Sophia had

Brandon didn’t seek out Sophia, just busied himself with

Sophia’s