Chapter 168

Sophia was on board with that.

She figured Brandon probably wasn’t a fan of women crying, so during the years she knew him, whether it was senior year or the two years they were hitched, she always kept a tight lid on her emotions in front of him..

But she didn’t see it coming that Brandon would cut short his sleuthing because of Cindy’s waterworks.

“He hit you up after that?” Sophia asked.

“Nah,” Cindy shook her head, “just stopped me on my way out to peek at my phone, wanted to see the chat history with you. But chill, I wiped our chat clean, nothing left to find,” Cindy quickly added, then, unable to contain her curiosity, gave Sophia a look, “So, what’s the deal with you and Mr. Crawley?”

Sophia hesitated, “We were high school classmates.”

She skirted around the fact that they were once married.

Cindy was taken aback.

“Don’t tell me it’s one of those stories, high school sweethearts, split over some dramatic misunderstanding, now it’s a

bittersweet reunion?”

She sniffed out the scent of a reunion with Brandon, one tinged with unfulfilled longing and resentment.

Sophia just smiled. “Nah, that’s not it.”

Crawley? Date? As

convinced, and didn’t

bit about the kid. Not everyone’s cool with the idea of sperm

agreed

finished a call and came

looking. The place was a simple

with good schools, parks, and shopping nearby, not too far from her company, but not too close either-just the right distance

The internal greenery and kids’ facilities were on point, making it a good bang for

this one,”

The realtor was ecstatic, “So, about the one upstairs.”

wanted to know if Sophia was still interested in taking a look at the larger apartment upstairs, a spacious three-bedroom

see the upstairs unit first, but upon meeting him,

knew what he was about to ask and cut him off.

realtor

Cindy followed him back to

treated Cindy to a

only after the taxi had disappeared into the distance that Sophia headed back to the real

the big three-bedder

to see more flats right after signing

got a friend who’s also looking

thrilled and quickly escorted Sophia back to see the apartment.

was just above the seventh-floor unit she’d rented, on the

flat, with a cozy, warm off-white decor and even

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