Next One Is a Babe

Chapter 1698

Cindy nodded. They went into the car and after she fastened her seatbelt, she said, “I also read that aside from Logan and Sophia, you didn’t have a lot of friends. You must have felt lonely back then.”

Ian was pensive for a moment, but without reading too much into Cindy’s remark, he replied, “It was fine by me. I’ve never been a fan of large crowds anyway.” Then, he gave a low chuckle. “Sophia and I haven’t known each other that long. I used to do bar gigs back in the day and I met her on one of her travels.”

He started the car and pulled away from the curb. As they drove down the road, he appeared to have thought of something and it made him chuckle fondly as he added, “I remember she had only just divorced from John a couple of days before I met her. She was traveling to kind of drown out the melodrama, but she ended up staying in the same hotel as John since he happened to be traveling for work at that time as well.”

There was a genuine smile on Ian’s face as he recounted such anecdotes about John and Sophia. No longer did he feel any resentment or grudge.

On the other hand, Cindy had never stumbled across the news of John and Sophia’s divorce back in the day. On the contrary, the media outlets had intended on broadcasting the details of Sophia’s alleged scandal with Ian instead. Cindy had no interest in Sophia whatsoever, so she hardly paid attention to Sophia.

Presently, she raised a brow as she pointed out, “I didn’t know they were divorced. I mean, they look pretty happy with each other.”

He sighed ruefully. “It wasn’t always like this. Some people just won’t appreciate what they have until they’ve lost them.”

Confusion dawned upon her. “Are you saying that things were rocky for them in the beginning?”

The details of John and Sophia’s first marriage were foggy to Ian, but he tried his best to enlighten Cindy nonetheless. “Theirs started out as an arranged marriage by their parents. They never dated before that, so I guess all their flaws and differences made things hard for them in the beginning.”

Cindy slowly nodded. “When I saw them the other day, I really thought that they dated for a while before settling down. They looked really happy together.”

“They only started to mend their relationship after the divorce,” Ian said, refuting her beliefs with a shake of his head. “Or, maybe the attachment was formed during their first marriage but they never realized it. It was only after they separated that they discovered how intertwined their lives were, but stuff like that is more common than you might think.”

An absentminded Cindy hummed and didn’t add more to the conversation. She thought Ian sounded rather unaffected when she brought up Sophia’s name earlier and she didn’t hear regret in his tone either.

Logan’s words from back at the clubhouse flashed in her mind. She didn’t want to believe him, but seeing Ian like this made her believe that Logan was worthy of some credit.

It didn’t take long for them to arrive home and they entered the house to find Aurora lying on the couch in a miserable heap.

She only peered at Cindy and Ian from the corner of her eyes as they walked in, but she quickly looked away and returned to stare at the ceiling.

The television had not been turned on and the house was clad in a heavy silence.
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