Next One Is a Babe novel Chapter 197

Sophia took a nap during the afternoon before going on a grocery trip in a nearby mall when it was about time, for she was running out of food ingredients. As a token of her appreciation, she planned to cook him a lavish meal, so she didn’t only buy poultry and fish, but other types of seafood too.

She set down to work as soon as she arrived home without checking the time, while she worked on until the skies turned dark. After the soup was ready, she stretched out her limbs to relieve herself of the exhaustion from all the labor.

Upon checking the time, she figured that John should be done with work by then, so she served everything on the table before sitting down to wait for him. She even rehearsed her thank you speech for when he got home.

Sophia prided herself in being a fair person, so she would repay him after he helped her out despite having some unhappy memories with him. Half an hour was spent with her leaning against the back of her chair, but John was nowhere to be seen.

If her memory served her well, she recalled Zack having told her that John had quite a lot of free time recently. She wondered if he was getting busy again since the scandal with Infinity Group was almost settled. After licking her lips, she spent more time waiting, but John didn’t return home.

Eventually, she lost all patience, thus she gave Zack a call, which he picked up almost instantaneously. Judging from the background noise, he was watching TV when she called. John would usually have Zack come along if he had matters to tend to, but it sounded like Zack was at home.

The call came as a surprise to Zack. “What’s up, Sophia? Do you have more instructions for me?”

There was a pause on Sophia’s part before she asked, “You sound like you have quite some time to spare tonight. Do you not need to work overtime?”

“What do you mean by that?” Zack was taken aback, but he soon began chuckling. “Thanks to Mr. Constance, I haven’t needed to work overtime recently, so I can kick back and relax.”

Sophia gave a grunt before replying, “That sounds great.”

Zack questioned immediately, “What’s up? Why did you call me anyway?”

After denying his claim, she said a little shyly, “I called to thank you for helping me out today. I would’ve been swindled by the landlord if I was on my own.”

Zack heaved a sigh before telling her, “The landlord had swindled a lot of other people, and with how he charged for the bills, I bet he would’ve earned quite a lot of money.” He pondered on the situation before continuing, “We wouldn’t have decided to rent the shop lot if it wasn’t for the location, as well as the fact that there were no other similar shops in the area, as the landlord’s attitude was enough to dissuade us.”

Sophia grunted in agreement, as the landlord was extremely cunning; even Robin was totally unmotivated to work that afternoon. Later, she even sent Sophia a text to complain about the sadness that thoughts of it triggered.

Even so, she figured it was within reason that Robin would feel like that, as business wasn’t good, yet the landlord would keep on swindling her hard-earned money like that. Robin’s mood only seemed to improve after Sophia consoled her that the old contract would expire after that month, and she wouldn’t mind giving Robin a commission if they managed to earn more profit through their hard work.

Meanwhile, Zack told her that he was looking for someone to draw a blueprint for the renovation, as well as having the contractor visit the shop in a few days, all so that they would be able to begin the renovation as soon as the contract was signed.

His explanation startled her, but she quickly thanked him for his quick work, which was unexpected. A sigh escaped him as he continued, “You don’t have to thank me. Your ex-husband was the one who told me to handle the matters. He also offered to come along when he knew that I was going to help with the contract, so it really was nothing that I did.”

Silence befell as Sophia pursed her lips, all the while wondering why hasn’t John returned when he wasn’t out socializing nor working overtime. He might as well have gone loitering somewhere.

After a while, Sophia told Zack that she got his message, thus she would get an opportunity to thank him. They ended the call there as Zack had nothing else to say, after which she put her phone down to look at the food on the table. While she wanted to thank him, he seemed to never give her the chance to do so, especially during such critical times.