Chapter 460

Grace spotted Brandon's furrowed brow and immediately got jittery, "Something up?"

"Nah," Brandon snapped back to reality, "You do your thing, I gotta jet."

With that, Brandon hung up, but he still felt antsy.

Beneath that agitation was a hint of spiteful resignation, "Fine, she's gone, so be it." Especially when he remembered how she coolly discussed pulling the wool over his eyes with his dad in the hospital room.

The resolve she showed by walking away hurt him way more than he had imagined.

Her heart was tougher than anyone else's.

Better to cut the cord than to drag this out.

With that mood, Brandon didn't bother to check with Don about Sophia's business trip details.

his head so much that he paced out of the office before the end of

rollercoaster, clueless about what went down but sure it

couldn't figure out how things had done a 180 when they seemed to be on the up and

mulling it over, he couldn't help but shoot Susan a text, [What's up with Sophia and Mr. Crawley

at work, baffled by the text, [What do you

noticed they're

Susan didn't reply.

just started at a new company, back in her old groove as a business development manager, and was in the thick of a full-on blitz, swamped every day. She hadn't had much time to swing by Sophia's, but she still made it a point to visit Theresa every evening,

anything. What's got you bringing this up

the beans about his afternoon work

you catch what the message

[Nope.]

be some work thing ticked him off, doesn't have to be

work. I've never seen anything stump

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