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?”

that playing poker was, 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

round started, Sophia

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

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 home after that. Thus, he was calling Sophia to ask her whether she had any

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

with an indifferent grunt. “I see. That’s soon.” A few seconds later, he added, “Anyway, I’ll be on my way to meet you

all agree that you should make the call. In fact, it seems to us that John is getting really desperate, but I

only kept her eyes on her cards without looking at Matilda, knowing what Matilda was trying to imply. While those words were meant for Ian to hear, Sophia decided it would be best for her to play dumb since she didn’t want to put her foot

footsteps walking up the stairs, yet she wasn’t alone because Ian could clearly hear that too. The next moment, Ian had his eyes glued to the door that was left open until John showed up as both men quickly

mental game by acting magnanimously. He

give up his place, allowing John to participate in

look appeared on Sophia’s face as she couldn’t help but look at

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