The Returning Ex

Sophia responded with an affirmative hum and said, “Well, I guess that’s not a bad thing either.”

Old Mrs. Constance frowned. “That brat must have bunked down somewhere else.”

Despite the old lady’s harsh words, Sophia knew what Old Mrs. Constance meant by that. In fact, John and his father had one thing in common, which was that they were both nostalgic and faithful men. Besides spending the night at Matilda’s place, it wasn’t likely that he was playing around with other women some place else. I guess Old Mrs. Constance understands that anyway.

In the meantime, John arrived at his office and attended a meeting after taking care of his work. Before the meeting began, Dylan, who was one of the attendees, was approached by John with a question. “Have you been in touch with the Bailey Family lately?”

was caught by surprise upon hearing John’s question. “Y-Yeah, of

meant. Let me put it this way, perhaps. Have

in touch with her at first due to

that question, Dylan didn’t seem interested to know either. As soon as the brief meeting was over, John ran into the Bailey Family’s employees but saw no

had quite a number of things waiting for him to take care of. When it was almost noon, he received a call from one of his men who told him that they had managed to track down the buyer of the bug they had discovered earlier. Then, he was told that the buyer was someone ordinary with barely any property in possession. This person lived in a normal-looking household situated somewhere between the city and the suburb. As all the information hinted, there was no convincing reason for this buyer to acquire such an advanced covert listening device. Besides, John’s man also told him another strange discovery that this mysterious person had neither a business nor a job, which meant that he had no source of income at all. Nevertheless, the balance in his savings account had

For that, he ventured a wild guess that the culprit had disguised as a civilian when committing crimes. Soon, John said, “This is getting