The Returning Ex

Although Sophia was slow to react, Ian had better reflexes, so he turned immediately to pull Sophia into an embrace with his back against the incoming projectile. John was standing on her left but slightly further away, so he didn’t manage to react in time.

The shard crashed into Ian’s back before smashing into smithereens on the ground, while Sophia felt a prickling pain on her calf, which might be due to a wound inflicted by the broken shards. Logan seemed to have forgotten about his anger as he stared at Ian and Sophia while the room fell into dead silence for a few seconds.

It was John who first came to his senses. Stepping in, he pulled Ian away from Sophia to check on her while holding both her shoulders. “Are you alright?”

Sophia looked between John and Ian before pouting. “My leg hurts, but I don’t have the courage to look at it. Am I bleeding?”

The suspender shorts she wore left her thighs and calves exposed. John squatted to see that her calf was indeed bleeding due to an injury caused by the shard. There were two or three wounds, which one of them seemed more severe due to the length of it. Sophia was afraid of pain, so she dared not watch whenever she received an injection, nor was she brave enough to look at her wounds.

a sound moral compass to begin

up on the receiving end of Logan’s kick, which prompted Leah to pull Sally and

on the spot. She then asked John with a trembling voice, “John,

skin, which made it seem all the more gory. There was a gloomy look on John’s face as he

senses, after which Sean quickly approached them. “Are you alright? I’ll

Mr. Morgan

them down harshly as he turned to look at Old Mr. Morgan, then at Sean, before finally staring daggers into Sally, Simon, and Leah. It was then