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.

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 at an office, which makes it even less

int

bun in the oven, and now to duck him, you’re gonna

college, Sophia had a sweet job 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.

of the loop for a whole year, and when she

solid track record

shot at flying solo in design, so the job hunt was never

she later thought about hitting

giving it up felt

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 yes or

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

low blow to his future family and

to wake up one day to her hubby saying,

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 they’d go so far as

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

grind of looking after a newborn, all that blood, sweat, and tears weren’t something you could just wipe away because they

give

her kid to be the glue that

moved on from that chapter with the Crawley family and didn’t want to be sucked back in because of

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