The Returning Ex

Failing to notice Sophia and Matilda, William followed John into the restaurant. In a puzzled manner, he asked, “Why do we have to come all the way here to have lunch?”

Without responding to his father, John looked around. In fact, it wasn’t hard to locate Sophia. Seeing her, John grinned and turned to his father. “Dad, why don’t we—” Oh excellent, he’s seen Mom, John thought.

With a serious expression, William was staring in the direction of Matilda, frowning all the while.

After giving it a thought, John took his father’s arm and said, “Why don’t we take a seat first?”

Although William was displeased, he let his son pull him toward an empty table.

After glancing at John from the corner of her eyes for a while, Sophia pulled Matilda’s sleeve. “Hey, I see someone familiar.”

Matilda replied, “Oh, who is it? Do you wanna say hi to the person?”

think I’d better not.” With that, she pointed in the direction

turned her head back. Lowering her head, she said in a

shoulder. “I’m not framing you. Look, this is the perfect opportunity to test William’s

the secretive behavior of the other two, Richard smiled. “What’s wrong? What is it that I’m not allowed to

no big deal. It’s just that I saw

was taken aback, as

explanation. Since the main players were all around, her job was done, so she lowered her head and continued

to look at William. Although she had done nothing wrong, she felt somewhat

started ordering food. Without looking at Matilda, William questioned, “You know your

did tell me they are here, but

William looked in the direction of

in the same