Looking at Tyler’s badly beaten face, Sonia sighed deeply and got into the car without further arguing with him.
Meanwhile, Tyler had not deemed himself an outsider at all as he started touching things in Sonia’s car.
Sonia’s car was a standard sedan, but because Tyler was very tall, he could only shrink his long legs below the seat. However, he still thought it was the car’s problem. “What kind of lousy car is this? I can’t even move my legs! Hey, why didn’t you ask for a car when you and my brother were going through the divorce?”
“Just get out if you’re not happy with it.” Sonia didn’t speak kindly to him as she didn’t want to spoil him. “Go and sit in Toby’s fancy car instead.”
With that, Tyler stayed silent.
Soon, the car arrived at the parking lot in the basement of Bayside Residence. Seeing Sonia get out of the car, Tyler quickly jumped out and followed behind her. “I heard that the houses here are very expensive. Did you sell the Ocean’s Heart to buy this property? Did Toby really not give you a single cent when you guys divorced? Hey, have you lost your mind? Even if you asked Toby for some money, no one would say anything about it.”
Sonia ignored him and even deemed him absent. After arriving on her floor, she entered the house after scanning her fingerprint.
If not for Tyler’s quick response, he would have been left outside the house. He was so annoyed that he felt like cursing Sonia but he knew he needed a place to sleep tonight, so he snorted and bit his tongue.
Seeing Sonia walk toward the kitchen, Tyler yelled at her, “I want beef noodles—two bowls!”
Although he detested Sonia, it was undeniable that Sonia had great cooking skills and he enjoyed her dishes. Back when Sonia was still at Fullers’ Residence, she would prepare lunch for Tyler to bring to school. After Sonia had left the family, Jean had hired a chef who claimed to have worked in a five-star hotel before. However, it turned out that his cooking was nasty and even Sonia’s cooking was better than his.
“I’m going to make plain noodle soup—take it or leave it,” Sonia said coldly without even turning around. “The first-aid kit is in the second drawer of the storeroom. Go get it yourself.”
What the heck! This woman has simply divorced Toby, but why does it feel like she has become a totally different person?
After complaining about Sonia inwardly, Tyler reluctantly went to get the first-aid kit from the storeroom and sprayed the disinfectant at the wound on his face.
Sonia was still preparing dinner, so Tyler wandered around the apartment. He noticed that the guest room was empty while there were only Sonia’s apparel and cosmetics in the master room—there was no trace of another man at all.
Could it be that the toyboy named Carl Lee does not stay here?
Tyler walked to the table beside the floor-to-ceiling window and found a laptop, some stationery, and a half-opened old metal box on the table. He glanced at the door before secretly opening the metal box. Inside the metal box was a pile of yellowed letters.
Out of curiosity, Tyler took one of the envelopes and opened it. After reading the content, he realized that Sonia was writing to a pen pal named ‘John’. She shared interesting stories in life with him and asked him if his grandmother was well.
When Tyler saw the date at the bottom right corner of the letter, he mocked her with disdain, “Hmph! This b*tch did not focus on her studies and was dating on the web! How has she not been fooled yet?”
All this while, I wondered why Sonia had a big change in her personality after the divorce from my brother. It turns out that this is her true color––she has always been wild!
“Tyler Fuller.” Sonia’s impatient voice came forth from outside the bedroom. “I’ll give you ten seconds. If you don’t come over and have your noodles, I’ll throw it away.”
Damn! How dare this woman threaten me!
Cheesed off, Tyler simply stuffed the letter into his pocket and thought to himself, I have to let Toby see this and tell him that Sonia has engaged in web dating since she was in school.
When Tyler went to the kitchen, the beef noodle was still on the table, so he sat down and tucked away, thinking that Sonia was still sensible.
Meanwhile, Sonia sat down across from Tyler and asked, “Why did you fight with the others?”
“Mind your own business.”
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