The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

Sophia proceeded to tell Matilda the same reason she told Ian—that Logan was drunk and asleep. In response, Matilda replied, “Oh, I see. But why would he drink in the day? What’s wrong with him?”

After hearing Matilda’s question, Sophia only smiled in silence as she didn’t know how to put it to her. Soon, Matilda sat next to her and asked, “So, what’re we going to do now? Just sit here all day?”

Sophia looked up at the ceiling and sighed. “That’s a good question. I have no idea what we could do to kill time.”

Not long after that, Matilda seemingly figured out a way to kill time, so she beckoned to one of the staff and said, “Let’s play poker. Come and join us.”

Sophia helplessly stared at Matilda. “You’re quite the gambler, aren’t you?”

Matilda shot a gaze at Ian and asked, “Care to join us?”

At the same time, Ian was just done with his meal. “Sure, why not?”

in fact, not a bad idea, or they would be bored to tears while waiting for Logan to wake up. Before heading over to the game room, Sophia told another staff to check on Logan. That dude has been out like a dead man since the moment he was carried to his room. I doubt he is going

play their game, the atmosphere was instantly lightened up. Shortly after the first round started, Sophia received a call from John, which she didn’t bother looking at before answering it because she

the call connected until Sophia called out to him. “Are you

he paused and gazed at her with a glacial look on his face. It turned out that John had been away from his office for some official business and was planning to go straight

now at Logan’s club. Ian is back, and we’re planning to

That’s soon.” A few seconds later, he added, “Anyway, I’ll be on my way to meet you guys.” Sophia then put her phone down and placed one of her cards

to Ian and said, “John’s dad and I think you should be the one to decide on the child’s name. We all agree that you should make the call. In fact, it seems to us that John is getting really desperate, but I told him to

words were meant for Ian to hear, Sophia decided it would be best for her to

that too. The next

happy, although John appeared to have the upper hand in the mental game by acting magnanimously. He then turned his attention to Sophia and stood

John to participate in the game. In response, John smiled and said,

appeared on Sophia’s face as she couldn’t help but look at Matilda, who seemingly pursed her lips at

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