The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

Matilda smiled. “Look at John. He clings onto you like a sloth on superglue, but still you aren’t agreeing to his proposal. I’m scared. What if I have to go through that before he agrees to date me again?”

Yolanda left with William in the end, just as Sophia predicted.

Matilda and John sent them off, while Sophia looked out from the window. Looking at Matilda, she presented herself well, smiling and composed.

Sitting on the passenger seat, Yolanda rolled down the window and waved at Matilda. If they didn’t know better, they’d think she and William were a couple.

As William drove away, Sophia shouted, “Hey, what are you guys doing? You can’t let them leave together. Why didn’t you hail a ride for Ms. Bloom?”

John laughed. “You’d do that, I’m sure.”

Sophia snorted and went back to her room, while John and Matilda went into the living room. “Cheer up.” He patted Matilda’s shoulder. “Dad and Ms. Bloom are just friends. Don’t you see that he looks calm?”

William did look calm, and he didn’t show any signs of dating Yolanda, but Matilda still felt uneasy about it. Yolanda did like William, and she was a great woman, so Matilda thought that was it for her. “Yeah,” she answered weakly. “I’ll be going to my room now. It’s been a long day.”

went upstairs with her. “What did Sophia say to

asked if she wants to get married to you again, and she said no. That’s

closed his eyes. “Forget

to the second floor. At this time, Sophia was going through her skincare routine in the bathroom,

through the mirror. “Ms.

nodded. “Yeah. She’s soft spoken, too, so I think it’s understandable if

back at him. “So would you want your mom to marry him again, or would

snorted. “Is that

in the past where his mother was still an unreasonable, clingy, mercurial woman, he would want his father to marry Yolanda. William’s mild-mannered personality was incompatible with the old Matilda, and it would only make her more unreasonable; he needed a gentler

on the bed and looked at her phone. “How’s your investigation going? The

she

her eye, failing to stifle her laughter as she giggled. “There’s

was a big threat for her comeback. As she thought of this, she wasn’t sure whether Isabelle would hurt her baby out of jealousy, for she knew Isabelle as a

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