The Returning Ex

Logan chuckled nonstop. “The point is that I’m telling you the truth. I can’t hide it.”

Beside him, Old Mr. Jefferson looked away from Logan. This was the first time he saw his son behave obediently in front of someone else.

Logan did not receive a reply text from John at all. John probably was at a social event and overlooked the text.

Impatient, Logan sent another text to John, and this time, he reported his location and mentioned that Sophia was eating and drinking merrily with him, both of them getting high.

When it came to bluffing, Logan was even more skillful than Sophia. After that, he stored his phone away and didn’t show her the text.

Sophia did not mind. After taking a few bites, she drank some fruit juice while listening to the business discussion between Old Mr. Bailey and the Third Young Lady Jefferson.

The topic was not totally alien to Sophia, but she definitely could not fully grasp the technicality and the jargon. Anyway, she told herself not to appear clueless. It didn’t matter if she was an outsider as long as she could appear composed and professional.

chair with a calm expression and a faint smile on her face, looking humble

she was the only person without an elite background

influential background except for her—she was

and paid no attention to

previous meetup. That day, Sophia was quite haughty with a

it ridiculous that anyone would think of Sophia as an innocent and sweet girl. Sophia was more calculative than the average person. It seemed that

Mrs. Bailey

by anyone. She even stole a glance at Mrs. Bailey from the side of

Bailey, who was experienced in socializing and was aware of Sophia’s calculativeness. So, Mrs. Bailey pursed her lips and looked away with a

Logan and whispered something that was only audible between them, “This dinner is super

said that I wouldn’t want to be here