The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

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.”

Brandon being at a loss for words.

in front of Brandon, 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

her disgust and despair over not being able to cut

she ultimately couldn’t

sever ties with Brandon completely, the child couldn’t stay.

the operating table,

about parting ways with Brandon, it was about not

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

bear not to have her.

who had chosen her with such certainty, the only blood

for a family, but she had a home without a home, never truly having

her most recent chance at having her own family, perhaps the only chance.

her not because she resembled someone else, but simply because she wanted

financial means to raise her independently, and she was mentally prepared to do it alone. She had everything ready, yet she still had to give up on her child because she 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, wanting her to hold her hand, while she cruelly retreated step by step, refusing to grasp it, crying so hard she couldn’t catch her

proceed with the surgery and eventually wheeled her out of the operating room.

the moment she was wheeled out of the surgery room, Sophia knew that unless the child didn’t want her, she

entangling with Brandon further, leaving the father and keeping the child seemed the best

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

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she’d done well, despite it

decision that day