Trading My Ex for His Uncle by Hello Spring

"Fine," Valarie conceded.

As Nyla sat across from Valarie, the latter hesitated after taking a careful spoonful of oatmeal and asked, "Nyla... I didn't make too much of a scene last night after getting drunk, did I?" She vaguely remembered crying on Nyla's shoulder and being quite loud about it. It was so embarrassing....

Nyla raised an eyebrow. "Now you're worried about being embarrassed?"

Valarie could only look down in silence. If she had known she would be so out of control while drunk, she would have avoided alcohol altogether and not even gone to the bar last night.

"Did something happen yesterday that made you drink so much?" Nyla asked.

Valarie's gaze dimmed as she looked down and murmured, "I'd rather not talk about it."

Nyla didn't press further and nodded. "If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. Just finish your oatmeal. I'll take you to work after you shower."

Valarie thought for a moment and declined, "No need. My company is in the opposite direction from Prospectus Technology, and since our work hours are similar, it would be too tight for you to drop me off and then get to your job. I'll just take a cab." Nyla bit into her breakfast and said casually, "It's fine. I've already resigned."

Even if she hadn't resigned, Prospectus Technology would have told her to stay home and wait for the outcome after what happened yesterday.

"Resigned? Why did you suddenly resign?!" Valarie exclaimed.

up too much of my time. I could only study in the evenings, and I don't want to repeat this

"Why did you suddenly decide to pursue

it earlier. Now that I'm divorced from Clark, I want to start a new chapter in my

about Damon?" Valarie

"What I had with him was just a brief dream. Now that the dream is over, it's

had no future together, especially now that he

starting anew with graduate studies was indeed

are you planning to apply

senior there, and the school is quite

far," Valarie

were in Saintornia, at the southern edge of the country, while Capitarnia was in the north. It would take several hours by plane. "It's not too far. I can always come

Nyla's desire to leave Saintornia and start fresh in

clothes for Valarie. Their sizes were similar,

the dining table. As soon as she loaded the dishes into the dishwasher, she received a call from Pete. "Ms. Jayston, I hope

awake. Did you find out anything about

Pete's voice was

the grandson of a victim from the