The Indifferent Ex-Husband Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate

Chapter 557

After breakfast, Brandon dropped Theresa back home and left her in Grace's

care.

Maybe it was the haunting image of him with blood at the corner of his mouth from the night before, but Theresa wasn't her usual obedient self this time. As soon as Brandon tried to put her down, she instinctively clung onto his clothes for dear life.

This instantly took Brandon back to the time when Sophia was in trouble, and Theresa cried her eyes out, begging Sophia not to go. He felt a lump in his throat and his nose tingled with the onset of tears.

The incident had cast a much longer shadow over Theresa than anyone else.

"How about I take Theresa to the office, would that be nice?"

This time, Brandon didn't try to persuade her to stay at home like before. Instead, he did his best to soothe her.

Finally, the tension on Theresa's little face eased, and she nodded gently, "Okay."

Theresa arrived at the office, everyone couldn't help but

he had shown up

everyone was still pretty clueless about the nature of Sophia and Brandon's relationship, as they had hardly ever indulged in any public displays of affection at the office. The closest they had come to that was

Brandon didn't linger on Tia's face. Instead, his gaze had drifted over her shoulder to Sophia, who was not far behind her. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he took Sophia's hand and left Tia standing there

was as close as the company got to witnessing any kind of romance between

Star Dempsey Architects and a select few, nobody knew who Sophia

to the whole company that he was a proud father of a baby girl, he didn't reveal who the mother was, so most people were in the dark about the connection between Sophia and him. However, his recent splurge on finding leads for Sophia had everyone in the

been running wild inside the company, with those in the know keeping mum and the clueless ones munching on the gossip, with all eyes on what

swirl of guesses, a touch of romance and tragedy colored the

life. From publicly rejecting another girl's advances to whisking Sophia away, to the sudden announcement of his daughter, and now the extravagant search for Sophia's whereabouts, combined with his absence

being away for so long, everyone couldn't contain their curiosity, stealing glances at him, especially while waiting for the

company had a great amount of employees, plus there were many people passing through

then back at him, trying to do so without being too obvious, out