Chapter 141

Sophia was at home tucking the little ones in for a nap when she got the message.

The kiddo had just nodded off, and Susan was also around the house.

Sophia went dead silent for a bit when she saw the message, just zoning out while staring at her phone screen.

Susan took a shot in the dark, “Brandon?”

Sophia chuckled, “As if it’d be him.”

Then she flipped her phone towards Susan, “It’s from Don.”

Susan glanced at it, then back to Sophia, “Honestly, I think you should totally snag this job opportunity.”

She glanced at the little girl snoozing on the bed, “Just picture Theresa punching in one day, bragging to her pals all proud-like, ‘My mom designed this – how cool is that?”

She picked up the design proposal Sophia had left on the table, flipping through it with a touch of regret, “Such a killer design getting buried would be such a waste.”

Sophia glanced at the design proposal too, but kept mum.

Susan looked at her.

honcho, He won’t be getting his hands dirty. As long as he doesn’t make a point of showing up, you two bumping into each other in that

int

to pass up a job once because of getting hitched and having a bun in the oven, and now to

day, fresh out of college, Sophia had a sweet job lined up, but then she got pregnant, and with the early pregnancy being rocky, she had to play it

a spell of getting her health back, she ended up out of the loop for a whole year, and when she started job hunting again, it wasn’t the same as right after graduation.

working on and off on projects with her mentor Zachary Gardner, but without a solid track record of a 9-to-5, employers were iffy, offering her gigs

for a shot at flying solo in design, so the job hunt was never quite hitting the

she later thought

a stable spot in the design world on her own terms, the idea of giving it up felt like a waste

answer,” Sophia glanced at the still-sleeping tyke, “If he’d just said

the kid to him or even to the kid herself.

to his future

to wake up one day to her hubby saying, “Surprise, I’ve got a

no, she’d play it by ear when to break the news to him,

wasn’t sure how hung up Brandon and his folks might be about the kid, whether they’d go so far

their heads to fight for custody, Sophia wasn’t sure she could hold

her nails at every prenatal checkup to the life-and-death struggle in the delivery room, to the round-the-clock grind of looking after a newborn,

just give up her child.

kid to be the glue that forced two people back together

the Crawley family and didn’t want to

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