William answered with a gruff voice, “I’m staying back for overtime work. Just a little busy recently.”
Old Mrs. Constance responded by letting out a sigh. “What’s going on now? Why am I now back to being alone at home again? With John, Sophia and you away, I don’t even have anyone I can talk to during dinner.”
William forced a smile and replied, “Well, we never talked during our meals anyway.”
“Do you seriously think that way? Times are different now than before,” Old Mrs. Constance retorted.
William opened his mouth, ready to speak his mind, but he soon decided to swallow his words. What do you mean different? How different has it become?
Meanwhile, Old Mrs. Constance only complained in a helpless manner and proceeded to remind her son to take his meals regularly amidst his busy schedule.
In response, William responded with an affirmative grunt before shifting his eyes to the food that had gone cold on the desk. At the sight of that, his gaze instantly darkened. Upon hanging up the call, he leaned back in his chair and let out a heavy sigh. Well, I’ve already got myself dinner, but I’m just not in the mood to eat right now. Then, he reached for his phone and browsed through his social media news feed, only to see John’s post. Since his son rarely posted anything on his social media, William decided to take a closer look at the picture, in which John and his friends were seen enjoying a buffet.
As William noticed the smiling faces of Sophia and Matilda, he was soon reminded of the man he saw earlier that afternoon. What’s his name again? Uh… Oh, yeah. Richard. What a common name! I guess that’s why I can’t remember it.
After looking at the picture for a while longer, William’s mood was entirely ruined as he could no longer concentrate on skimming through his documents. In fact, he had been thinking about giving John a call and pretending to ask what he was doing. However, his rational mind stopped him from doing that since he knew he had to stay behind and finish going through the papers.
As he kept dwelling on the matter, the man couldn’t help but feel more frustrated and helpless. Soon, he laid his phone down and closed the file on his desk. Fine! Fine! I guess I’m done with reading all these papers. How can I, with my current mood?
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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...