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

and

her to keep the police station run-in under wraps, especially the bit about the kid. Not everyone’s cool with the idea of sperm bank babies, and she

agreed to keep it zipped without

finished a call and came back

keep looking. The place was a

from her company,

fairly new, with decent property management and cleanliness. The internal greenery

this one,” Sophia

ecstatic, “So, about the one upstairs.”

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

unit first, but upon meeting him, she opted to check

about to ask and cut him off. “This one’s

realtor agreed

to the shop to sign the

to a

after the taxi had disappeared into the distance

a look at the big three-bedder

to see more flats right

friend who’s also looking to rent,”

escorted Sophia back to see the apartment.

the seventh-floor unit she’d rented, on the eighth floor, a short

indeed better than the smaller flat, with a cozy,

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