They’d spend Christmas Eve together, and as soon as the midnight bells chimed, they’d be the first to wish each other well. But now, the person celebrating Christmas with her had changed.

Everything from before was in the past.

As Cornelia reminisced, the midnight bells rang once again. At the same time, Cornelia’s phone buzzed. She thought it would be a message from Abigail and Zack, but the name on the screen read ‘Ben‘.

After the collapse of the Hartley Group and the news of Marcus‘ death, Ben had disappeared. Cornelia didn’t expect him to call at this moment. She picked up. “Merry Christmas, Ben!”

Ben replied, “Merry Christmas, Cornelia! It’s been a while, how are you?”

Cornelia answered briefly, “I’m good. You?”

Ben replied, “I’m good too.”

Then, they fell into silence. Ben tried to break the silence, “What have you been up to?”

Cornelia answered, “Work.”

of work?

told him, “I’m writing a

“What kind of

simply replied, “A TV script.”

Cornelia answered, each response brief and to the point, no extra

tell me more? After all the time we’ve worked together,

Ben, “That’s

told her. “I’m at a start–up. Would you be interested? If you want, I

laughed, “No need, I really like

heard you’re pregnant. How many months are you? When’s the

Cornelia answered, “March.”

concernedly, “March isn’t that far off. Are you still working? Have you considered

and the way he spoke from their

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