The Returning Ex

John stared at Sophia for a while with a serious expression before finally deciding to ditch the topic. Whatever… She wouldn’t understand anyway. I guess the rumor that pregnancy affects the mother’s cognitive abilities is true after all.

He spent some more time playing with the baby before taking him downstairs. Seeing that Sophia wanted to take a nap, he hugged her until she fell asleep. Lying in bed, John mulled over the situation before getting up and leaving the room to give Ian another call in the corridor.

Ian picked up fairly quickly while speaking in an annoyed tone. “Why are you calling again?”

John had a similar attitude. “Why don’t you make a freaking guess? Even if you aren’t worried about it, I don’t like the fact that Sophia’s identity is being uncovered.”

After a moment’s pause, Ian told him, “Don’t worry. I will make sure that she doesn’t get involved. I will settle things my way.”

However, John didn’t really trust him. “You’d better make sure that you resolve this without a hitch. Ian, you know me. While I would tolerate any other blunder, this isn’t one of them.”

to submit to John. “You know me too. I would never put her in harm’s way even if it

that? He’s just another man who’s now unrelated to my wife in any way! John hung up without a word

the office. Hannah and Cindy were sitting in there, and the latter was still spacing out a little, yet to recover from the shock she received from

on his chair while looking at Cindy. “If you help

Cindy was still at a loss as to

able

to look at Hannah. “I wonder if we will be able to pull this off though. It’s not that I don’t want to help, but as you

a sigh, Hannah replied, “Yeah. Of course I know that, which is why we have to make sure to execute the plan as flawlessly as possible. Cindy,

while saying, “I don’t know what to do, so