The Returning Ex

A short while later, Sophia texted, ‘I think Ms. Bloom likes your ex.’

Matilda froze up. If even Sophia could see it, that meant she wasn’t imagining things. ‘I see,’ she replied, then Sophia stopped texting her. When Matilda was done with dinner, Yolanda was still there.

After thinking it over, she said, “You guys carry on. I’ll see what Sophia is doing. Maybe she needs help finding her stuff.”

At this, William only looked at her, saying nothing. After that, Matilda slowly went upstairs, and her expression became gloomier with each step. When she came to Sophia’s room, Sophia was lying on the bed, scrolling through her phone. At the sight of Matilda, she rolled and sat up. “What brings you here? Aren’t you going to chat with them?”

Matilda hummed a placid response. “Hey, be careful. You’re pregnant, you know, so go slow.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Then she lay back down. “But if you’re not there, Ms. Bloom will be chatting happily with your ex.”

if they want to sleep in the same bed. It has nothing

the same, aren’t you?” Sophia sighed. “If they do sleep together, you’d probably

Matilda snorted. “As if.”

but she didn’t want to argue on this matter. “Why is Ms.

answered slowly, “She says there’s a misunderstanding between us, so she wants to clear it up. I might be wrong, but I just feel like she’s here because she knows William’s here, not because she wants to clear it up with me. That’s just a pretext. I’ve said everything when I went to apologize to her,

not paying attention to you.” Then she put her

sense anything.” Men and women functioned differently. Men could be meticulous, but they didn’t share the same eye for details as women. What women could see might be missed on men, so William failing to see through Yolanda was

back at her. “Tell me the truth. Do you want to

and echoed, “What about you? Do you want to remarry