The Contracted Ever After (Cordelia and Ronan) novel Chapter 391

Cordelia returned to her apartment, it was three in the afternoon. At this time, Taylor would have been at work already.

She entered her bedroom, shed her coat, quickly pulled her hair into a bun, donned a fluffy white sweater, and sat down at her desk to read.

The entire motion was fluid and uninterrupted.

"Didn't you notice there's another person in the room?" Ronan's languid voice resonated from behind her.

How could Cordelia not have noticed? The moment she stepped through the door, she saw Ronan. He was awake, but hadn't gotten out of bed, laying there bare-skinned against the headboard.

He didn't seem to mind the cold.

"I saw you," Cordelia replied, reaching for a pair of silver-rimmed glasses by her side.

Her desk was positioned behind the bed, so Ronan could see her put on glasses, but not her face while wearing them.

He was intrigued. She had once said he looked like a 'scruffy scholar' with glasses on. So, did she transform into a virtuous maiden with hers?

"Are you short-sighted?" He tilted his head, trying to get a better look at Cordelia with her glasses on, but only managed to catch sight of her obedient and upright back.

"I've been slightly short-sighted for a while, about fifty degrees. It's not a big deal, I don't really need glasses. But now that I'm back to studying and sometimes I can't see clearly, so I got glasses," Cordelia answered.

"Why didn't you come back for lunch? Weren't you supposed to video call our son?" He asked.

Cordelia clenched her fist slightly. "Something came up. I got held up. Aren't you supposed to be leaving?"

"Do you want me to leave?" Ronan asked her.

"Umm…" Cordelia tightened her grip on her fist. "It's complicated, hard to explain."

"What was so important that you even missed seeing your son?" Ronan lit a cigarette behind her, questioning her.

Cordelia didn't want to tell him that she had become friends with a woman from his past. To be precise, she didn't want to mention the name "Petra" in front of him at all.