The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 203

Late one night, discussing work in a hotel room, Brandon could tell that Kent was looking a bit off.

"Got something on your mind?" Brandon asked.

"Nope," Kent denied, but then his eyes drifted back to Brandon, and he couldn't help but grumble, "Don't you think birds of a feather flock together?"

"Why bring this up all of a sudden?" Brandon glanced at him, asked nonchalantly, got up to tidy the notes they had just discussed, and tossed them to Kent. "Tweak the acquisition plan following our discussion tonight."

Kent caught the notes on reflex, but his mind wasn't on the job. He picked up the thread of their earlier conversation. "Well, I was thinking, we're in Skyrim City. Susan's in Skyrim City. So, I hit up Ms. Yearwood for Susan's WhatsApp, thought I'd ask her out for a meal, but she shot me down flat."

Brandon raised an eyebrow. "And that's a problem?"

Kent stopped in his tracks, then couldn't resist the urge to show off a bit, "I was mainly aiming to meet up, chew the fat a bit, you know, to avoid getting the cold shoulder from Ms. Yearwood later on."

He clammed up mid-sentence when he noticed Brandon's hand, which had been resting on the notebook, pause abruptly. He couldn't help but look towards Brandon with a touch of unease.

Brandon's palm was lightly pressing on one end of the notebook, his eyes half- closed, his demeanor cool to the point of indifference.

"Mr. Crawley?" Kent couldn't help but hesitantly call out to him.

Brandon lifted his gaze to Kent. "If you want to ask someone out, just do it. No need to use me or Ms. Yearwood as an excuse."

Kent was left speechless..

was entirely on the

had mentioned "Ms. Yearwood" many times before, it never sounded as distant as

if, really,

late for the meeting tomorrow," Brandon said, giving the boot in his usual cool

"Alright."

any more questions, just nodded and quickly packed up to head

day's meeting was about

case where the Starlight Group intended to buy out the Horizon Group's mall in Skyrim City, making

city's first modern shopping malls, was a piece of Skyrim City folks'

soft spot

the city's development over the years, the Horizon Mall, being a bit of an old-timer, had seriously fallen behind in terms of facilities and competitiveness. However,

same boat, slowly being left behind by the times, no

was teetering on insolvency but didn't want to give up this project, a symbol of their past glory, hence the

Gavin Temple, the big boss of Horizon Property, and this

negotiation site was set in the office building of Horizon Property, located in a

image. Unfortunately, without any top-notch products to push in an increasingly competitive industry, even the fanciest office environment couldn't stop

had high hopes for the partnership with Brandon and had come specially in a chauffeured car to pick up Brandon and Kent