Being Pursued By Ex-husband novel Chapter 412

Chapter 412 Are You Praising Me

Today was not Friday, nor was it the weekend. Everyone still had to return to work tomorrow.

Of course, the ones who attended the event were all wealthy scions or high-level executives of the company. Hence, it did not matter if they were late to work the next day. However, Sophia was used to going to bed early, so she was already tuckered out at that point.

Alexander led her to Justin, and after greeting the man, the two left the venue.

Unlike the others, Charlize was a salaried employee who could not be late for work. Hence, as soon as Sophia and Alexander departed, she returned home with Charles in tow, too.

On the way back, Sophia leaned against the car window and almost fell asleep.

She usually went to bed around ten o'clock, taking approximately thirty minutes to fall asleep. At the latest, she would be asleep by eleven o'clock.

It was almost eleven when they left the event, so Sophia naturally felt lethargic.

After parking the car in the garage, Alexander unbuckled his seatbelt and alighted from the vehicle without waking Sophia up. Instead, he walked over to open the door to the passenger's seat. He had just bent over when he met the woman's smiling eyes.

A tender light flickered in his ebony eyes as he spoke. “You're awake.”

As Sophia watched Alexander help her unfasten her seatbelt, she hummed softly in response. “I didn't fall asleep.”

She had only shut her eyes to rest for a short while but hadn't entirely fallen asleep. Hence, when Alexander stepped out of the car, she awoke promptly.

The man grunted in response but still bent over to lift Sophia in his arms.

Sophia allowed him to do so and lifted her arms to wrap them around his neck as he carried her upstairs.

In truth, she felt drowsy on the way back, but now that she was home, she did not feel as sleepy anymore.

Moreover, she did not have an appetite earlier that night and had not eaten much at Justin's birthday party. As a result, as soon as she sat down, her stomach growled.

Feeling slightly embarrassed, the woman lowered her head to sip on some water before stealing a glance at Alexander. Upon meeting his gaze, she lifted her head and admitted without shame, “I'm hungry.”

After all, hunger was not something that one could control.

Alexander unfastened the first button of his shirt collar and walked to her side. “What do you want to eat?”

“Something simple will do,” she responded.

It was late, and it would be too time-consuming to whip up a complicated dish.

After giving her a peck on the cheek, Alexander said warmly, “Go take a shower. I'll make you tomato beef pasta.”

“Okay,” Sophia answered obediently. She handed him the glass in her hand and went upstairs.

The beef he would use was imported beef that Felix had delivered a few days before. It was supposed to be used for dinner the other day, but something came up last minute, so the ingredients had been sitting in the fridge all this time. It was a coincidence that they could use it tonight. Otherwise, Sophia would have had to settle for plain tomato pasta.

After Sophia finished showering and came back downstairs, Alexander had already finished cooking the pasta.

As soon as she reached the foot of the steps, the aroma of the tomato beef pasta wafted into her nose. It simply made her even more hungry than she already was.

When Sophia took the fork from Alexander, she saw the beads of sweat on his forehead. Her heart skipped a beat as she asked, “Have you ever pictured yourself cooking for your girlfriend one day?”

“No.” He had never thought about such things, not even after he started dating Sophia, because, in his perspective, doing all that for Sophia was not worth mentioning. He could keep cooking for her as long as she liked his cooking.

Sophia was not in a hurry to eat the freshly cooked pasta as it was steaming hot. Hence, she rolled up a small portion of it and let it cool while propping up her chin with her other hand, looking at Alexander. “Do you think I'm useless because I'm incapable of doing anything?”

Alexander's eyes flickered slightly when he heard her words. With a hint of amusement in his eyes, he responded, “You know how to make money, though.”

“Are you praising me?” Sophia teased.

“Yeah,” he answered. The woman felt embarrassed at his swift candid response.

Thus, she kept silent and started to eat her pasta.

“It's delicious,” she praised, assuming it was Alexander's first time cooking the dish.

However, her guess was incorrect this time, as the man said, “I used to cook this dish a lot when I was studying overseas.”

Alexander was not someone who would settle for things he disliked. Since he could not get used to the food abroad, he learned to cook for himself.

Pasta was one of his favorite foods, so he usually prepared beef spaghetti.

He did not have time to make fresh pasta for a hungry Sophia that night, so he used off-the-shelf noodles, which were not as tasty as homemade noodles.

Sophia glanced at him and praised, “No wonder it tastes so good.”

Even though Alexander did not say anything, the look in his eyes turned as tender as ever when he gazed at Sophia.

Sophia ate slowly. She had only eaten half of her portion when the man already finished his.

It was only fifteen minutes left until midnight. Alexander looked at her and said, “I'm going upstairs to shower.”

“Okay.” Sophia then picked up her phone to read the messages that Katherine had sent her.

She had not been checking her phone all night, and the moment she unlocked it, she saw dozens of messages from Katherine, all relating to Sharon.

Sharon was once again a trending topic on Twitter after she apologized.

Although Sharon might have benefited from all the attention, luck was not on her side. Numerous netizens had left harsh comments on her first apology video, asking her to stop pretending to be innocent, but most of the netizens were kind, and the negative remarks were eventually drowned out.

However, someone still brought up the incident a month ago when Sharon maliciously smeared Sophia, claiming she was a repeat offender and even digging up some of her past scandals.

After Sharon apologized again, the aforementioned Twitter post suddenly became popular.

She was immediately criticized by the netizens. After all, this was not the first time that she had deliberately damaged Sophia's reputation for no reason.

On Katherine's Twitter, there were many people asking if Sophia had really forgiven Sharon. Katherine posted a reply, which basically meant that Sophia had forgiven Sharon after the latter apologized to her in private. However, one could interpret that Sophia's forgiveness only meant that she would not pursue the matter further, and nothing more.

Basically, this meant that Sophia did not really forgive Sharon.

When Sharon first smeared Sophia, the former's fans even helped to attack the netizens who commented on Katherine and Sophia's Twitter. Some of her fans were critical of her conduct the second time the incident occurred. Despite the fact that she had apologized, some of them were still disappointed.

Sharon had over thirteen million fans, but in just three hours, she lost nearly one million of them.

Everyone in the entertainment industry knew that most fans on Twitter were bought. It would be impressive enough if half of Sharon's followers were actual people rather than zombie accounts.

But now that she had lost one million fans in just three hours, it was clear that she was losing a lot of real fans as well.

Not only did she lose some supporters, but some of them even began to criticize her.

Many people liked Sharon because of a song she released in her second year of debut. At that time, in the music video, the woman looked innocent and pretty, but her voice was powerful and unique, which created a huge contrast and left a deep impression on people.

However, her music in the past two years had not been as good as before. Still, fans were biased toward their idols and had a strong sense of tolerance. Hence, most of them continued to encourage her.

However, Sharon was really pushing her luck. She had done many reckless things, and the incident with Sophia had been the biggest scandal in the past two months. In March, she also maliciously ridiculed a senior on Twitter for no reason. This caused a lot of fans to be disgusted. Many of her supporters grew to loathe her after this latest act of hostility against Sophia.

Katherine, the queen of gossip, added that Jonice had learned that Midway Media no longer intended to promote Sharon.

Sophia lifted her brow when she saw Katherine's last message.

Mr. Schild is actually quite a good man.

Sophia was almost done with her meal after reading Katherine's messages. She placed the bowl in the dishwasher before heading upstairs.

Just as she entered the bedroom, Alexander came out of the shower, wearing a loosely tied bathrobe that revealed the taut muscles on his chest and back.

The woman gulped and averted her gaze. “Is Mr. Schild planning to abandon Sharon?”

When she saw Alexander's warm gaze, her heart skipped a beat, and her face flushed.

The man had already walked to her side when she raised her head once more. He wrapped his arms around Sophia's waist, lifting her onto the bed.

“Are you going to plead for mercy on her behalf?” he asked.

“I'm just curious,” she replied while staring at him.

After looking at her for a while, Alexander said, “Yeah, I asked him to do so.”

Seems like I overestimated Samuel.

“Why did you do that?” asked Sophia, chuckling, despite knowing the reason behind his actions.

Alexander did not answer her question. He held the back of her head and suddenly lowered his head to kiss her, sticking his tongue into her mouth before he pulled away and looked at her. “The tomatoes taste sweet.”

Sophia felt her mind go blank and her body heating up. She wanted to look away but didn't know where she should turn her head to. The hand that was cradling the back of her head then slid all the way down her neck and lifted her up by her waist. “Do you have an early meeting tomorrow?” he asked while holding her.

“No...” Sophia uttered.

“Me too.” He spoke before dipping his head to kiss her again. This kiss was evidently filled with more passion and desire than the previous one.