The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

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.

said himself, Star-Dempsey Architects is Don’s baby, he won’t be hanging around much. This project’s got its own head honcho, He won’t be getting his hands dirty. As long as he doesn’t make a point

int

and having a bun in the oven, and now to duck him, you’re gonna pass on this one?

pregnant, and with the early pregnancy being rocky, she had to play it safe and stick around the house, putting work

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.

a solid track record of a 9-to-5, employers were iffy, offering her gigs

and the experience she racked up had her itching for a shot at flying solo in design, so the job hunt was never quite hitting the

partly why she later thought

way back to a stable spot in the design world on her own terms, the idea of giving it up felt like a waste to Susan. Sophia felt the pinch too. If Brandon weren’t the client, she

ever tie the knot again, and he didn’t give me a straight answer,” Sophia glanced at the still-sleeping tyke, “If he’d just said yes or no, I probably wouldn’t be overthinking

spill the beans about the kid

a low blow to his future family and wife.

to her hubby saying, “Surprise, I’ve got a kid.”

to break the news to him, but

up Brandon and his folks might be about the kid, whether they’d

to fight for custody, Sophia wasn’t sure she could hold her ground. The kid was her

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, all that blood, sweat, and tears weren’t something you could

just give up her child.

her kid to be the glue that forced two people back together either.

the Crawley family and didn’t want to be sucked back in