Next One Is a Babe

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Meanwhile, Logan was awake. He was standing by the window in his room as he was trying hard to live down the humiliation of being roughed up by a woman. Because of that, he couldn’t keep his eyes shut and sleep. Instead, he smoked one cigarette after another until he started to feel a little dizzy. Then, he opened up the window while standing there, wanting to think out loud. However, nothing came out of his mouth because his mind was blank.

Soon, a waiter approached Logan to inform him about the arrival of Matilda and Sophia. In response, Logan replied, “I see. Just tell them that I’m asleep. Sophia knows her way around here.” Feeling moody, Logan was hoping that someone could lend him a pair of ears to confide in, but he subsequently had a change of heart as he only wished to keep to himself.

After the waiter headed outside to receive Sophia and Matilda, Logan went to his bed and lay in it. At this moment, he received a message on his phone, which he chose to ignore when it rang once earlier. Now that he was lying in his bed, he finally decided to reach for his phone to check out his message. It turned out that it was a message from one of Logan’s subordinates when he couldn’t be reached via calls.

Upon skimming through the message, Logan angrily swore to himself. “Darn it, b*tches! Who the hell gives two hoots about her?!” Then, he tossed his phone aside and turned around in bed, wrapping himself in his blanket as he closed his eyes. There is nothing sleeping can’t solve. After all, that’s the only moment that I can be free from all this disturbance.

In the meantime, Sophia and Matilda came to a private lounge, where they were served with fruits and tea before the waiter excused himself. After that, Sophia held Matilda’s arm and said, “Alright, so what happened back there?”

However, Matilda scratched her head in confusion and replied, “I’m probably as baffled as you are right now. In fact, I don’t even know where to start either.”

Sophia said with a smile, “Come on! You’re the one who went through that. How can you not know anything?”

Indeed, Matilda had no idea where to begin as everything seemed normal when she ran into William back at the restaurant. Nonetheless, she couldn’t help but have a hunch that their coincidental encounter was a key to something important, even though she didn’t know what that might be.

Noticing Matilda’s expression, Sophia decided not to press on further with her questions as she could tell that the former was still in shock from what had just happened. The next moment, however, Sophia crossed her legs while sitting in the chair. “Actually, the way I see it, it wasn’t much of a big deal. You only just bumped into your ex-husband while dining with a friend. What’s wrong with that? Furthermore, what exactly could your ex-husband do anyway? It’s not like you both are planning to rekindle old flames, so he really doesn’t have a reason to be mad at you.”

After hearing Sophia’s point, Matilda agreed with her and responded with an affirmative grunt. “You’re right. What could William do even if Richard and I were more than just friends? Who is he to be angry about that?”

“Yeah, exactly.” Sophia gazed at Matilda and added, “Show him your backbone. You’re to blame for how things ended up for you and your ex-husband, but you’re a woman after all, so that makes it okay for you to be reserved.”

As she said that, her words reminded her of herself and John. She suddenly found herself similar to whom she advised Matilda to be.