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.

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 of showing up, you two bumping into each other in that company is pretty much slim

int

and now to duck him,

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

loop for a whole year, and when she started job hunting again, it wasn’t the

kept busy, 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 that were basically starting

shot at flying

thought about hitting the

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 wouldn’t be sweating it

if he’d 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

he said yes, she’d never spill the beans about the kid to him

blow to his future

to her hubby

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

wasn’t sure how hung up Brandon and his folks might be about the kid, whether

If they got it in their heads to fight for custody, Sophia wasn’t sure she could hold her ground. The kid was

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

couldn’t just give

want her kid to be the glue that forced two people

from that chapter with the Crawley family and didn’t want

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