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.

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

int

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

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

she ended up out of the loop for a whole year, and when she started job hunting again,

and off on projects with her mentor Zachary Gardner, but without a solid track record

college portfolio and the experience she racked up had her itching for a shot at flying solo in design,

she later thought about hitting the books

giving it up felt like

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

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

low blow to his future family

one day to her hubby saying, “Surprise, I’ve

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

about the kid, whether they’d go so far

fight for custody,

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

couldn’t just give up her

want her kid to be the glue that forced two people

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

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