Chapter 330

He had his doubts about the arrangement, for sure. After all, Ivan had made it crystal clear that he was into Sophia and he was planning on pursuing her. This setup was kinda iffy, but no better candidate had popped up in a pinch.

Brandon didn't miss the bit he blurted out when he first breezed through the door, "I'll have Ivan drop you off on his way."

"So you deliberately set Ivan up for this?" he asked, his voice cool as a cucumber.

"No way," Don was quick to clarify. "It just so happened Ivan was leaving too, came to say his goodbyes, and that's when I thought of hitching Sophia a ride with him."

"Just so happened?"

Brandon chewed on those words, glancing at Sophia.

Sophia kept mum, just shooting Don a look. "Mr. Dempsey, no need, I've already called a ride. I can cab it back on my own."

"I'll take you," Brandon said, checking his watch, "Give me a few."

"No need, there's a whole bunch of bigwigs and guests here," Sophia replied. "You stick with them."

"It's cool, I'll just say a quick hello," Brandon insisted. "You go wait in the car."

With that, Brandon tossed the keys to Sophia.

Catching them instinctively, she was about to throw them back to Brandon when he had already darted out the door.

Sophia was speechless.

at Sophia. "Having Brandon take you is a good thing.

Sophia mustered a half-smile.

get back to it. You carry

leave, the keys in her hand feeling awkward, yet she couldn't just leave them

up Kent to come and

"How'd Mr. Crawley's keys end

pass them on to him?

nodded, not overthinking it. "I'll get someone

and sorted a

"Thanks."

got into the car Kent had

Sophia shot Brandon

by to drop them off.

bidding farewell to guests when he

the guests and after making sure Kent would see them out, he took the keys from Kent and made

left scratching his head by Brandon's actions, but by the time he pieced it together, Brandon was

gave Sophia a ring. "Where

office," Sophia said softly. "Gotta swing by the

Brandon kept silent.

hang up now," Sophia said, ending the

didn't call back, just drove

on

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