Chapter 167

“He asked about how we met.” Cindy brought it up, still looking totally puzzled. “No clue why he’d be into that.”

Sophia frowned. “So what did you tell him?”

“I just went with your story, of course. Said we met over a meal, your phone died, and I just casually picked up the tab for you.” “And what did Mr. Crawley say?”

“He grilled me about when and where I picked up the tab, even wanted to see proof of payment,” Cindy said, still feeling weak at the knees. “Mr. Crawley was seriously intimidating then, like he was interrogating a criminal, seemed like he didn’t buy my story at all.”

“He can be pretty intense sometimes,” Sophia chuckled, glancing at him. “Then what happened?”

“I told him I paid in cash.”

“He didn’t buy that, did he?”

Sophia could just picture Brandon’s expressionless face upon hearing that response.

“Exactly.” Cindy nodded earnestly. “He was like, ‘That’s a bit too convenient, and gave me this terrifying look. I just couldn’t stand it and, I couldn’t help it, I burst into tears.”

Sophia thought it was an unexpected turn of events.

Cindy felt a bit embarrassed. “I was seriously under a lot of pressure, couldn’t bother with anything else. And then Mr. Crawley seemed kind of speechless with me, didn’t push further, told me to go home.”

quite picture Brandon being at a loss for

the only time was during a dinner with Don’s team, when she found out Brandon wanted to leave, and he suddenly demanded fiercely if she had really cut ties completely, and pressed her to tell the truth about whether the child was still there. In that moment, he shattered all her defenses.

her disgust and despair over

she ultimately couldn’t bring herself to give

her that to sever ties with

the operating table,

parting ways with Brandon, it was about not giving up on

coming to find Sophia, choosing her to be her mother, and Sophia cold-heartedly rejecting her, made

bear not to have her.

the only person in her life who had chosen her with such certainty, the only blood relative she

had a home without a

child represented her most recent chance at having her own family, perhaps

not because she resembled someone else, but

didn’t want to have any ties with the father, Sophia thought of the little one being abandoned, reaching out with those round, helpless, scared eyes,

doctors and nurses, seeing her so distraught, didn’t dare to proceed with

unless the child didn’t want her, she could never give her

and keeping

and the child’s existence wouldn’t disturb Brandon’s family

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despite it being hard, she was happy and

had never regretted her decision that day at

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