She wasn’t going to interrogate him. Cindy just wanted to know what happened.
Ian’s work dragged on longer that night, and Cindy only heard him coming home around midnight. After he came in, he closed the door and leaned against it to catch a breath.
Cindy got off the couch and went to the foyer to check up on him. Obviously, he was drunk, since he was looking different than usual. Cindy quickly went to prop him up. “Oh, you got drunk.”
Ian waved his arm, telling her he could walk on his own. “Just a little. I’m tipsy, that’s all. We were talking about business, so we couldn’t drink much, actually. It’s just someone’s idea at the end.”
Ian sat on the couch, and Cindy came back with a glass of water for him. “Yulia was there too, wasn’t she?”
Ian looked at her in surprise. “How did you know?”
Cindy handed the glass of water to him. “The media posted some articles. There’s a photo too. How else am I supposed to know about it?”
Ian frowned. “They noticed?” But our gathering was at a private restaurant. There shouldn’t have been any paparazzi there.
Cindy sat beside him. “Yulia knows someone on the production team, right?”
Ian nodded. “Yes. She went over not long after we met. Sounds like she knows one of the investors.”
Cindy chortled. “She’s really a persistent one, huh? She shows up everywhere you are.”
Ian was feeling annoyed as well. He didn’t even talk to Yulia the whole night. She had been showing up too much lately, much to his annoyance. However, Yulia was acting normally, and she chatted with everyone. The producers probably didn’t notice Ian’s displeasure either. Ian downed the whole glass of water. “Let me see the article. I want to know what they wrote.”
Cindy took her phone and scrolled through her social media. “It’s nothing though. They just said you guys appeared in the same place.”
It was easy to find the article. Once she found it, she handed her phone to Ian. Ian took it and read through the news seriously.
Cindy continued, “She probably knows about your gathering with the producers. That’s why she went.”
Ian grunted. Yulia had been acting too aggressively lately, and he disliked women like that. However, Yulia had taken that up a notch and just became plain annoying. She has all the traits I dislike. He put the phone down after he finished reading the news.
There wasn’t any mockery in the article, not even a tiny bit. However, that was why Ian thought it was suspicious. He thought all media would bring up the past scandal if they found out that Yulia was meeting up with him, and that they would write something suggestive to nudge the audience in a specific direction.
That was their MO, but now, they didn’t do that. They didn’t even bring the past scandal up. They were just talking about the meetup plainly, and about how it went well. Ian wondered if they were trying to butter up to him or if they were whitewashing Yulia.
Ian leaned against the couch and heaved a sigh. “I’ll talk to Hannah tomorrow if this goes on.” I can’t let Yulia do this anymore. God, she’s annoying.
Cindy had her own concerns. “But Hannah and Yulia seem to be good friends. If you bring this up to her, Hannah might think badly of you.”
Ian didn’t care. “I have to. If I don’t say it now, it’ll be troublesome for us if something bigger pops up. If she thinks badly about me because of this, then it’s her problem. I don’t care. I’m just doing my job.”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Returning EX (John and Sophia)
So what happens to Ian and Cindy. Is she/ or does she get pregnant? Do they go back to the city and Ian works with Logan? Does Aurora stay in the entertainment industry or return with Ian? Terrible ending, who cares if Aurora was drinking/drunk with colleagues. What happened with Ian and Cindy?!...
Get rid of Gary. Apparently Cindy is too dumb to figure out his motives 😡...
Why are you trying to break them up when they just got together and are a loving couple. Let them stay close and move back to their true friends, Logan, Lola, John and Sophia!...
Sure hope Ian pulls his head out of his behind and works this out with Cindy. His brother needs him at the company and neither one of them truly like the celebrity life. Sophia and Lola will love her …....
I can’t wait for John to take down the Bailey’s including Isabelle so he, Sophia, William and Matilda can live in peace. Introduce Yolanda to Richard so they are out of the picture....
Ugh, don’t break up Sophia and John… they belong together and Sophia is just stubborn for no reason...
Sophia lives John, he just needs to tell her he loves her and get on with their life and family. Too much interference from others....
Sophia is so stupid....
John needs to man up, tell his mother and Isabelle to take a flying leap and confess to Sophia that he made a horrible mistake in divorcing her. This story is taking too long and once again, the bitches are looking like they are on the right side. Awful...