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.”

picture Brandon being at a loss

a dinner with Don’s team, when she found out Brandon wanted to leave, and he suddenly demanded fiercely if

was more about her disgust and despair over not being able to cut ties

clinic two years ago, she ultimately couldn’t bring herself to give up the

logic told her that to sever ties with Brandon completely, the child

she actually lay on the operating table, she was inconsolable with tears.

was about not giving up on

her coming to find Sophia, choosing her to

not to have

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

she had a home without a

chance at having

because she resembled someone else, but simply because she wanted

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

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

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

leaving the father and keeping the child seemed the

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

10

two years, she’d done well, despite it being hard,

regretted her decision that day at

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