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.”

Date? As if,” she

convinced, and didn’t

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

where Sophia was coming from and agreed to keep it zipped

finished a call and came

wasn’t really in the mood to keep looking. The place was

from her company, but not too close either-just the right distance from the Crawleys and out of

management and cleanliness. The internal greenery and kids’ facilities were on point, making it a

take this one,”

ecstatic, “So, about the one

still interested in taking a look at the larger apartment upstairs, a

initially wanted to see the upstairs unit first, but upon meeting

ask and cut him off. “This one’s good.”

the realtor agreed promptly.

followed him back to the shop to sign the lease.

to a

disappeared into the distance that Sophia

have a look at the big three-bedder upstairs,” she said.

to see more flats right after signing

also looking

escorted Sophia

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

better than the smaller flat, with a cozy, warm off-white decor and even

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