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.

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 of showing up, you two bumping into each other in that company is pretty much slim to none, plus you don’t have to clock in

int

because of getting hitched and having a bun in the oven, and now to duck him,

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

a miscarriage and 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.

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

up had her itching for a shot at flying solo in design, so the job hunt was never quite hitting the mark.

later thought about

terms, the idea of giving it up felt like a

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 it this much.”

the beans about the kid to him or even to the

blow to his future family

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

by ear when to break the news to him, but

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

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

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 wipe away because they

couldn’t just give up her child.

kid to be the glue that forced two people back

Crawley family and