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.

and a faint smile on her

person without an elite background in the

influential background except for her—she was

Bailey got carried away by the conversation and paid no attention to Sophia. Instead, it was Mrs. Bailey who had been fixated on

today compared to her attitude at their previous meetup. That day, Sophia was

an innocent and sweet girl. Sophia was more calculative than

Mrs. Bailey was

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

aware of Sophia’s calculativeness. So, Mrs. Bailey pursed her lips and looked away with a

something that was only audible between them, “This dinner is super boring. If I had known about it, I would

why I said