Being Pursued By Ex-husband novel Chapter 446

Chapter 446 Growing Feelings

Sophia curled her lips slightly before taking out the chips from her basket and placing them in front of her.

Claudius followed suit. When Silas saw that, he smiled but did not say anything.

"It seems like Mr. Xenos and Ms. Yarrow are still as close as before."

Sophia peeked at her hole cards and replied with a placid smile, "Thanks for your concern, Mr. Cadogan."

Ignoring the man, Claudius tapped his fingers on the table to communicate the intentions of his next move to the dealer.

Silas proceeded to change the topic, discussing other business matters, while Sophia continued entertaining him by giving half-hearted replies.

At times, he tried to direct the conversation to Claudius, but Claudius would simply reply with one-word answers.

Whenever Silas asked a question, Claudius would not answer if Sophia had answered it first, and vice versa.

Seeing how stubborn the two of them were, Silas stopped talking after a while, as there was no point carrying on.

A few rounds later, Silas started to get bored and excused himself after taking a call.

"Let's catch up again soon. Please remember to send me a wedding invite when the two of you are getting married."

Still holding her cards, Sophia flashed a half-smile while lowering her head.

When Claudius heard that, his eyebrows twitched. Then, he replied with the longest sentence he had spoken that day. "Don't worry, Mr. Cadogan. We will definitely be delivering the invitation to you personally."

Silas nodded and took another glance at Sophia before walking out of the private room.

Once the man left the room, the smile on his face vanished.

He turned toward his assistant and instructed, "Find out what Alexander has been up to in the past six months."

As Alexander had been missing in Chanaea for half a year, Silas found it strange that the man had suddenly appeared in Lightspring. He was certain that there was more than met the eye.

Besides, Sophia had been the one handling everything in Odyssey back in Chanaea.

If Alexander is fine, why did he choose to leave the country?

The feud between Silas and Alexander had been going on for years. In addition, Silas lost the project bid to Odyssey two months ago. As such, he could feel his anger mounting when he saw Sophia and Alexander earlier.

However, he was good at hiding his true feelings behind his perpetual smile. He had hoped to find out some useful information during the game earlier but failed to make any headway.

Nevertheless, the man was rather impressed with the two of them for managing not to give anything away.

Shortly after Silas left, while the dealer was shuffling the cards, Sophia smiled at Claudius and asked, "Do you remember meeting him before?"

"No," Claudius replied, shaking his head.

"That was a very quick reply."

Although Claudius was putting up a good act, Sophia was still worried that Silas would find out about Claudius' memory loss when the two men interacted earlier.

Sophia had not met Silas formally before, but she had had prior dealings with him. Moreover, Felix had also warned her previously that Silas was a scheming man who had a perpetual smile on his face.

A hypocrite was a thousand times more dangerous than an unapologetically despicable person. Naturally, Sophia had to keep her guard up in front of him. Hence, knowing that Silas was testing the waters, she tried to give ambiguous replies to all his questions earlier.

She knew that the man had no means of verifying her answers anyway. From the looks of the current situation, even if he was harboring ill intentions, there was nothing much he could do.

An inexplicable glint flashed past Claudius' eyes when he noticed the smirk on Sophia's face.

Recalling the sensual dream he had, the man swallowed subtly as he looked down at his chips. "Are we continuing?"

When Silas was the banker earlier, the minimum bid for one round was a hundred thousand. Half an hour and several rounds later, the two of them had won around five hundred thousand in total.

Sophia glanced at the chips on the table in front of her. Letting out a yawn, she shook her head and replied, "No."

It was already ten at night. After returning to the hotel and taking a shower, it would be almost time for bed.