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.

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

int

getting hitched and having a bun in the oven, and now to duck him, you’re gonna pass on this one? Seems like a crying shame

lined up, but then she got pregnant, and with the early pregnancy being rocky, she had to play it safe and stick around the house, putting work on the back burner.

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,

projects with her mentor Zachary Gardner, but without a solid track record of a

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

why she later thought about hitting the books

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

straight answer,” Sophia glanced at the still-sleeping

the beans about the kid to him or even to the kid herself.

a low blow to

to her hubby saying, “Surprise, I’ve got

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

how hung up Brandon and his folks might be about the kid, whether they’d go so far as to wrestle for

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

the delivery room, to the round-the-clock grind of looking after a

couldn’t just give up her child.

the glue that forced two people back together

moved on from that chapter with the Crawley family and

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