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?"

Sophia said, switching her camera

into view

"I wanna go

with that, she hung

Sophia was speechless.

when she tried

after, there was a "thump thump" at the door, coming from the bottom of

reach higher, so she could only knock at the lower part

immediately hugged Sophia's legs, craning her neck up and calling

was off like a shot, couldn't wait to come down. I don't

the

picking her up and turning to ask, "Why

"Missing mommy."

taking over as she glanced around. Soon, she spotted Sophia's

reached out her hand, and grabbed the

"What's this?"

sound of her milky voice, Sophia quickly snatched

"That's not for kids."

said gently, though it was already

of the words "Emergency Contraception" on the box, her eyes bulging in shock.

"No."

"Ivan and I are just

in her hand, noticing one was missing from the strip, "Who then? Are you thinking of giving Theresa a dad? What's the

hear her name and something about a dad, which she instinctively resisted,

hug, "There's no plan

somewhat understanding, her confused gaze flitting

didn't want to discuss this in front of the child, so she gently patted Theresa's

her mind and wasn't dozing off as usual. Instead, she looked up at Sophia with big,

would go over Theresa's head, and not explaining would

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

to be your daddy, like when

seemed confused and a

only person she'd seen with her mom

saying it, her little lips puckered, shaking her head. "I

her, "Not like Ivan. I'm not looking for another daddy for

quite grasping 'another daddy' but took comfort in

buried her face in Sophia's