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 if,” she

nodded, seeming convinced, and

bit about the kid. Not everyone’s cool with the

where Sophia was coming from and agreed to keep

finished a call and came back

looking. The place was a simple

her company, but not too close either-just the

greenery and kids’ facilities were on

take this one,” Sophia

The realtor was ecstatic, “So,

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

see the upstairs unit first, but upon

what he was about to ask and cut him

the realtor agreed promptly.

him back to the shop to sign

the paperwork, Sophia treated Cindy to a meal and called her

taxi had disappeared into the distance that Sophia headed back to the

the big three-bedder

not used to someone wanting to see more flats right after signing a lease.

friend who’s also looking to rent,” Sophia

was thrilled and quickly escorted

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

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

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