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

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

meltdown was more about her disgust and despair over not being able

years ago, she ultimately

sever ties

lay on the operating table, she was

with Brandon, it was about not giving

of her coming to find Sophia, choosing her to be her mother,

not

had chosen her

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

recent chance at having

she resembled someone else,

had the 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

her so distraught, didn’t dare to proceed with the surgery and eventually wheeled her out of the

the surgery room, Sophia knew that unless the child didn’t want her, she could never give her up, no

further, leaving the father and keeping the child seemed the best way to not

never know about the child, and the child’s existence wouldn’t

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despite it being hard, she was happy

regretted her decision

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