The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 121

Sophia was left speechless, thrown off balance by his relentless argument. She felt like she’d lost the plot and without realizing it, her confidence took a nosedive.

But Brandon was still on the offensive, “Sophia, you’ve crashed and burned under my watch five times already. Are you really willing to gamble your future on a sixth?”

Sophia managed a forced smile, “That’s a pretty bleak way to put it.”

“What’s there to be bleak about? You’re over it anyway, right? To you, I’m just another Joe Blow, no different from any Tom, Dick, or Harry on the street. Doesn’t that make it easier for you to focus on your career?”

Sophia pretended not to catch the sarcasm in his voice and kept her lips tightly sealed.

Brandon then sat back, stretched his long arm behind his seat, pulled out a contract and a pen, and handed them to her, “Sign this.”

Sophia glanced at it. It was the same contract he had shoved into her hands at the restaurant, just a fresh copy, probably one of several he had printed out.

Sophia didn’t reach out to take it.

“I need more time to think about it.”

Brandon turned to look at her, “How much more time?”

Sophia didn’t know. Her emotions had been a rollercoaster today, and she hadn’t had a moment to stop and think it all through. “I can only give you a week and a half.”

“The new company launches next Friday. If you’re not there, consider it a forfeit,” Brandon said as he thrust the contract into her hands. “If you don’t show, I’ll replace you on the Zenithan-style resort project. I’d rather ditch the plan than have to bring someone new on board halfway through.”

Without waiting for her to respond, he started the car again, “I’ll drop you back at the hotel.”

After dropping Sophia off at the hotel and just as he got back into his car, Don called.

“How are you two doing?” Don sounded worried on the phone, “Everything okay?”

“It’s fine.”

“And the designer, I mean Sophia.” Don corrected himself, “How’s she holding up? Is she feeling better?”

“She’s fine.”

project? Is she taking it? And the position of

“I don’t know.”

know what to say.

wait until next Friday,” Brandon said, “If she shows, she stays on. If not, we find someone

to persuade him, “It would be such a waste

said, “What else can I say? Didn’t you see your star designer is ready to pay up just to avoid me?”

was at a loss for words, “Alright, I’ll figure

he was about to hang up, Brandon cut in,

“A year.”

“Anything out of

out of the ordinary for a girl? Just the usual work,

your back, are you? That’s not likely. I met her the first time you came to Wye City, and she hasn’t changed much over the

her classmate’s

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“Huh?”

to talk

know first,” Don hung up with Brandon and called Sylvia

still in his car downstairs at

over. She was close

out, took one last look at the

straight home but went to the

villa in the West district. Even though it was over twenty years old, the house

in that house until

but the Frost patriarch feared that

by surprise, especially Louis, who was already in his pajamas ready for bed. Hearing that Brandon had come, he made an

up the stairs, “Martin, Brandon’s here.”

appeared at the top of the staircase, looking

touch since that incident

Martin, then turned to Louis, “I’m

excitement, “So you came especially for Yoli, eh? She’s in

to Martin, “Tell Yolanda to come down, Brandon’s looking for her.”

Brandon, “How did you know Yolanda was

“I heard.”