The Returning Ex

Realizing who was calling her, Sophia was startled as she stared at the screen.

Isabelle wasn’t a close friend who would call her up to have a casual chat, so she had to have an ulterior motive for making this call.

Sophia intentionally ignored the call because she knew that Isabelle would make another call.

As expected, Isabelle called her for the second time. Sophia picked it up and said in a languid voice, “Yes, Miss Bailey?”

Isabelle smiled and said in a pretentiously calm voice, “Miss Gwendolyn, I’m sorry for calling you at this hour. Due to business matters, I get into contact with John pretty frequently these days. When I left the Constance Residence that day, I didn’t get to bid you farewell. Thinking back, I find my behavior really impolite, so I’d like to offer you my apology.”

such a long time and mention this to me suddenly? Putting on a mirthless laugh, she said, “If you never mentioned

learned from John’s Facebook post that the

a long time for this. After giving it a thought, I didn’t think I should let some other women snatch him away from me. Since I didn’t have any fallback guy at

had left behind her grudges against Isabelle, but as soon as they got into contact, she couldn’t contain her urge to mock the other

to be each other’s arch-enemies. She thought she had left the past behind,

hearing that. She had always

thought that no matter what Sophia would say, she would be able to keep on conveying her

“I am just worried that you’ll misunderstand John and me.

had told me about this before. I have never worried that something is going on between you and John because he’s promised that he’d never betray me, and I trust him. He said that other than me, he wasn’t interested in