Next One Is a Babe

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Logan nodded while holding his cell phone. “Well, it’s fine as long as you’ve moved on. After all, it’s more important than anything else for you to feel comfortable about it. In that case, I’ll call Lorraine in a while. She has plenty of connections, so she can surely find some jobs for your mom.”

Ian smacked his lips. “I won’t be thanking you for this. The phrase ‘thank you’ sounds too polite, so let’s meet up for drinks instead when we’re free.”

Upon hearing Ian’s words, Logan replied in a different tone of voice, “Sure! No problem. Just take your little girlfriend with you and dress up nicely when the time comes.” After hanging up on Ian, he turned around and entered the house.

Sophia hurriedly said to Lola, “Hurry up and check Logan’s phone. Who knows if he was talking with a young lady on the phone? He even went outside to avoid us.”

Lola was not at all worried about Logan, though. “It’s okay. I know him too well. I’m the only one who can put up with his mannerisms, and no one else would take a fancy to him.”

“Hey!” Logan protested as he went over and pinched Lola’s cheek. “That’s sheer nonsense. I’m so charming that countless ladies are only too eager to throw themselves at me. Have you no idea that you’ve found a great guy for yourself?”

Lola simply couldn’t be bothered to talk to him at all.

Sophia commented at one side, “I’ve known Logan for a long time. To be honest, I have never seen any ladies around him. He merely fantasizes about it to comfort himself. Let me be honest with you as a friend, Logan—you’re not as popular with women as you think.”

Logan glared at Sophia and was about to speak when the latter continued, “But the fact that you’re unpopular with women doesn’t mean you’re not a ladies’ man. You’d better be careful, Lola. All men have to be guarded against.”

However, John somewhat took offense to Sophia’s remark, and he looked at her with a frown. “You don’t have to implicate anyone else while talking about Logan. What do you mean by including the words ‘all men’ in your last sentence? Are you trying to chide me in a roundabout way again?”

Sophia shot back with a snort, “Why do you keep applying my remarks to yourself? Or is there something about you that I should really be worried about?” Then, before John could speak, she deliberately drawled and said, “Oh, that’s right—you surreptitiously got in touch with Isabelle last night and even hid outside while talking to her on the phone. It was as if you were afraid that someone might overhear your conversation, hehe.” The chuckle toward the end of her speech was full of sarcasm.

John felt helpless upon hearing her words. “What do you mean by the word ‘surreptitiously’? Isabelle called me because she had something to ask me about. Wasn’t our son sleeping next to you at the time? I went out because I was afraid of waking him up. Why would you think that I have something on my conscience?”

Sophia couldn’t care less about that, though. She replied with a snort, “Whatever you say now is right, anyway. Who knows what you two were talking about on the phone at the time?”

Logan stared at John in surprise. “Is Isabella still in touch with you?”