The Returning Ex

“Why don’t I go to your place?” she quickly asked. “We need to talk.”

Shawn paused, wondering if he should agree to it, but he did in the end. “Sure. You know where I work, do you?”

She did. The matchmaker told her all about Shawn before setting up the date. Well, all the good things about him except for his ex. And then Lola hung up and kept her phone before coming back into the house.

Meanwhile, Logan and Langdon were chatting happily. Langdon lived his whole life in this village and relied on labor to sustain himself. He was proud of himself for raising Lola to be a public servant, but her job was dangerous. He didn’t want her to die an early death, so Langdon asked her to quit her job despite the glory it would bring. Nobody else in the family had a great job like Lola did.

On the other hand, despite being the flippant young master who spent all his time fooling around, Logan had seen most of what the world had to offer, and he could tell all of his stories to Langdon, fascinating him.

knew a lot about the world, and he talked with dignity. Logan was the ideal image of how a young man should be, at least in Langdon’s

in, Langdon was already inviting Logan for dinner.

at Lola. “Your friend’s an interesting young man. You never told me you had

him. Huh? I did talk about him. He’s that thug I kept talking about. Lola kept her thoughts to herself and

“Hahaha! Can’t keep her down now that

laughed along. “I can’t keep her down

hell is this guy talking about? Lola felt like smacking him on

Logan, then at Lola, and then he