CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times novel Chapter 507

While Khalid was still working in the office, Grandma Grant made him a call to ask why he hadn’t returned home.

Khalid replied with deep voice, “I got a lot of work to do. So I need to work overtime tonight.”

Grandma Grant sighed, “Alright, I am left at home alone again. Both Marshall and Kathy don’t intend to return. And nor do you. I don’t even have someone to talk to during dinner.”

Khalid smiled awkwardly, “But we seldom talk during dinner, right?”

Grandma Grant replied, “That was what happened in the old days. Now it’s different.”

Khalid was about to continue. But he held it back.

Different? So what was the difference exactly?

Grandma Grant then grumbled for a while, telling him to take care and remember to have dinner on time.

Khalid nodded. But he looked a bit distracted when staring at the take-out food that had got cold.

After hanging up the phone, he leaned on the chair and gave out a long sigh.

The food had been delivered to his desk hours ago. But he felt no appetite to take it.

After a while, he took out his phone again and started to randomly look it through.

Then he noticed what Marshall posted on the social media.

It was pretty rare to see him post something. So Khalid carefully focused on it.

It was a post with a picture, in which there shown that they were having dinner together.

Katherine and Frances sat next to each other while chatting with happy smile.

Khalid suddenly recalled the man he saw at noon.

His name…should be Nicolas, he supposed.

But his name was too mediocre to be impressive. And so was his look.

Khalid fixed his eyes on the picture again and again, feeling less motivated to work on those files.

Actually, he wanted to call Marshall to ask what he was doing while pretending that he hadn’t seen the picture he posted.

But his soberness still remained. He knew himself that he still needed to work here even after he made such a call.

The more he thought about it, the more disturbed he was rendered.

He put away his phone upside down and closed the file folder.

The distraught feelings stopped his motivation to keep working.

Sitting for a while, he heard his phone buzzing.

He hurried to grab it to check. But then he paused and looked a bit upset.

It was a call from Cora.

Actually, he didn’t wanna pick it up. But he still swiped to answer it after hesitating for seconds. After all, he was now being too distraught to work.

He could hear the sound of TV through the phone. So Cora might be watching TV at home, he supposed.

Cora asked what he was doing. Khalid breathed out to answer, “I am working overtime.”

Cora paused, “You are still in the office? Have you had dinner?”

Khalid took a look at the cold food, saying yes.

Cora nodded, “Just leave the work tomorrow. Don’t get yourself exhausted if it’s not urgently needed.”

Actually, most of his work was not that urgent. But he would work alone in the office rather than stay at home alone, which got him even more disturbed.

He preferred to kill time by working.

Khalid nodded and asked if Cora had something else to talk about.

Actually she did have something to discuss with him. But after some consideration, she said that was all.

She claimed that she made this call to kill time only. And she would like to leave him back to work since he was still busy.