The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

Sophia responded with an affirmative hum and said, “Well, I guess that’s not a bad thing either.”

Old Mrs. Constance frowned. “That brat must have bunked down somewhere else.”

Despite the old lady’s harsh words, Sophia knew what Old Mrs. Constance meant by that. In fact, John and his father had one thing in common, which was that they were both nostalgic and faithful men. Besides spending the night at Matilda’s place, it wasn’t likely that he was playing around with other women some place else. I guess Old Mrs. Constance understands that anyway.

In the meantime, John arrived at his office and attended a meeting after taking care of his work. Before the meeting began, Dylan, who was one of the attendees, was approached by John with a question. “Have you been in touch with the Bailey Family lately?”

Dylan was caught by surprise upon hearing John’s question. “Y-Yeah, of course. Their orders just keep coming.”

John rephrased his question. “That’s not what I meant. Let me put it this way, perhaps. Have you been in touch with Isabelle lately?”

Dylan replied, “Um. Nope. I only kept in touch with her at first due

As soon as the brief meeting was over, John ran into the Bailey Family’s employees but saw no signs of Isabelle. Upon taking a glimpse at those people, he turned

told him that they had managed to track down the buyer of the bug they had discovered earlier. Then, he was told that the buyer was someone ordinary with barely any property in possession. This person lived in a normal-looking household situated somewhere between the city and the suburb. As all the information hinted, there

thought of that, knowing that whoever was helping out this buyer had a hidden agenda. For that, he ventured a wild guess that

he had ever met. Besides, he also told them to focus on the places that he

hanging up the call, John stepped out of his office and headed to William’s office. Man! I’ve been dying to hear some stories from Dad throughout the morning. Thanks to my busy schedule, here is finally my chance! Meanwhile, William was passionately engrossed in

walked in, William looked up and shot a gaze at him. Upon witnessing his father’s reaction, John couldn’t help but think there was something fishy that William was hiding from him. After all, William didn’t always behave like that, so John approached closer and stood before him. Without saying

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