The gist of Isabelle’s text was that she felt awkward and embarrassed by Matilda’s plan, which she was totally unaware of. So, she was apologizing to John for troubling him.
She had bombarded him with a slew of texts, from which he could tell that she was feeling anxious. Even after staring at the texts for an extended time, he did not reply in the end. Instead, he turned off his phone and the bedside lamp.
On the other side, Isabelle clutched her phone and waited for some time, but she did not receive any reply from John. This must have meant that he would not reply to her. She wondered if it was because he didn’t read her texts at all, or if he had purposely ignored her after reading the texts.
Feeling antsy, she held her phone and paced around her room a few times. Just now, Matilda called and said that she had reprimanded John for his attitude. Matilda explained that John left because he was worried of being seen dining with other women, which might cause some gossip.
It was a plausible explanation. Lately, John and Isabelle were captured on camera by nosy people a few times. Thankfully, they were captured when they were at work, so they had assistants around. When the photos spreaded online, the media reported that the two of them were business partners, so there wasn’t any nasty gossip. With that, previous rumors about John and Isabelle were dispelled and speculations on their relationship were slowly clearing up.
Right now, if someone were to discover any slightly suspicious ‘private dates’, it would negatively affect both John and Isabelle. Anyway, Isabelle couldn’t keep a distance from John forever for fear of creating any scandal; she no longer had the patience to keep waiting.
When she was in a few business talks with John before this, she noticed that John had taken out his phone and clicked into Facebook. She could clearly see Sophia’s selfie on his screen.
It was obvious that John still missed Sophia. Isabelle thought that if she remained passive, she might end up losing him like before.
She could only tolerate losing him for once, for she had no desire, nor the mental fortitude, to go through the same ordeal twice.
In the span of John and Sophia’s one-year marriage, Isabelle’s daily life was hellish. Now, she finally waited until the day of their divorce, an opportunity that she would not pass on anymore.
After some rumination, she made a call to Matilda, and the latter instantly picked up. “Belle!”
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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...