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.”

As if,”

convinced, and didn’t pry further.

under wraps, especially the bit about the kid. Not everyone’s cool

from and agreed to keep it zipped without a

call and came back to ask about Sophia’s

mood to keep looking. The place was a

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

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

one,” Sophia said.

The realtor was ecstatic, “So,

still interested in taking a look at the larger apartment upstairs, a spacious three-bedroom spot. with better interior design and natural

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

he was about to ask and cut

the realtor

and Cindy followed him back to the shop to sign the

treated Cindy to a meal and called her a ride.

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

the big three-bedder upstairs,”

to someone wanting to see

also looking to rent,” Sophia explained.

and quickly escorted Sophia back to see

the seventh-floor unit she’d rented, on the

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

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