The Returning Ex

John smiled. “You thought wrong.” Then, he hung up.

Logan kept calling out to him, but the call had ended, so he looked at his phone and said, “You could have talked a bit more. We have time.” However, his request was met with silence.

The next morning, John went to tell his grandmother that he could go to the banquet. “Good.” Belinda nodded. “We should be early on that day.”

John nodded. “Okay.” After a quiet breakfast, John went to work. On the way there, Isabelle called him, saying she had sent a resupply document to him. There was no need to call him over something so trivial, so he only gave a noncommittal grunt.

Isabelle didn’t hang up immediately. “Are you still on your way?”

John grunted again, then Isabelle chuckled. “Lucky. I am already here, and early too. I even worked overtime last night. To think I used to envy you white collars. This is hard work.”

he wasn’t close with. So,

that at first, and she continued, “When I had a migraine from overtime last night, I think I can understand how stressful your lives must be. Everyone thinks the typical white collar’s life is easy. Work for a few hours and make a lot of money, but we pay the price too. That’s

now Isabelle knew something was off.

grunt once more. Now, Isabelle noticed his reluctance to speak, so she smiled.

tossed his phone aside,

told her it would be done on this day, so all she had to do was to let the place be properly ventilated, then she could open for business. They hadn’t started

surprised. “That does not sound

nobody would come to her shop. It was a dark name, but it was real, and she had to learn how to accept reality, no matter how ugly it was. After Sophia said it

Constance has paid a lot in advance. We still have some left