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.”

It has been a few days since the gathering. Why would she wait for such a long time and mention

the two of you have remarried, so I’d

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

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

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

had always known that Sophia wasn’t

had thought about the scenarios she would come across. She thought that no matter what Sophia would say, she would be able to keep on conveying her message. Unexpectedly, she was put in an embarrassing situation only a brief moment after the conversation

in a softer voice. “I am just worried that you’ll misunderstand John and me. It has always been a business collaboration between

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 all other women