The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 270

Sophia gave him a hesitant glance, not exactly jumping at the chance to add him.

Truth be told, whether they added each other or not made no difference. She and Brandon weren't share their lives on social media. Even if they connected through WhatsApp, they wouldn't get a sneak peek into each other's lives.

WhatsApp to them was just another phone number.

But Brandon was persistent. He didn't say a word, just flipped his phone screen towards her, waiting for her move, his eyes calm but with an underlying pressure that was hard to ignore.

Sophia had no choice but to open WhatsApp, and shoot off the friend request.

Brandon quickly accepted.

Staring at the empty chat window gave Sophia a sense of surrealness.

She and Brandon had been classmates for years, once husband and wife, sharing a closeness and heat strangers could never fathom, yet now they were like two ships passing in the night, not even keeping the most basic means of contact.

Most of the time, they acted on emotions but stopped at the boundaries of propriety, yet occasionally it was all reckless craziness and loss of control.

Brandon stared at the screen for a while before putting his phone away and looking at her. "I should head back now. You should get some rest."

Sophia nodded, "Yeah, take care on your way home."

She watched Brandon step into the elevator before closing the door, leaning against it with a heart full of mixed emotions, a real emotional cocktail.

Just then, her phone in her palm buzzed.

She picked it up-it was a message from Susan.

Probably Theresa, worried since she hadn't come home yet.

Sophia had called Theresa earlier during dinner with Ivan, telling her to hit the sack early and not wait up.

But the little girl must have grown impatient, seeing her mom hadn't returned. Sophia answered the call.

Theresa's chubby little face popped up on the screen.

"Mommy!"

She shouted excitedly at first, then asked in confusion, "Mommy, why haven't you come home?"

switching her camera to the rear

studio came into view

"I wanna go

that, she hung

Sophia was speechless.

answer when she tried calling

thump" at the door,

higher, so she could only

Sophia's legs, craning her neck up and calling

behind, looking resigned. "The second she heard you were in the studio, she was off like a shot, couldn't wait to come down. I don't know what's so magnetic about this place

the novelty

picking her up and turning to ask, "Why are you up so

"Missing mommy."

a broader view, her curiosity taking over

was puzzled, reached out her hand, and grabbed the

"What's this?"

her milky voice, Sophia quickly snatched

"That's not for kids."

gently, though it was

the box, her eyes bulging in shock. "You and Ivan

"No."

had gotten the wrong idea. "Ivan and I are just colleagues, nothing

one was missing from the strip, "Who then? Are you thinking of giving Theresa a dad?

hear her name and something about a dad, which she

"There's no plan to find a new daddy for you,

nodded, somewhat understanding, her confused gaze flitting

in front of the child, so she

on her mind and wasn't dozing off as usual. Instead, she looked

not explaining would keep

understand what 'finding a daddy' meant, but it clearly unsettled her. Sophia thought it

a daddy means finding someone to be your daddy, like

a bit

person she'd seen with her

it, her little lips puckered, shaking her head.

the misunderstanding and reassured her, "Not like Ivan. I'm not looking

nodded, not quite grasping 'another daddy' but took comfort in Sophia's

buried her face in Sophia's neck,