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.

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

Sophia mustered a half-smile.

"I better get back to it.

her hand feeling awkward, yet she couldn't just leave

to

jiffy, all foggy. "How'd Mr.

him? I've got some stuff to sort out, wanna

nodded, not overthinking it. "I'll

then made a call and sorted a

"Thanks."

her thanks and got into

Sophia shot Brandon a

Kent, he'll swing by to drop them off. I'm heading back first, you do your thing,

of bidding farewell to guests when he received the message, his expression dimming

sure Kent would see them out,

but by the time he pieced it together, Brandon was already

Sophia a ring. "Where you at

softly. "Gotta swing by the office, Kris is

Brandon kept silent.

now," Sophia said, ending the

didn't call back, just drove straight to the office, heading

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