Chapter 4

Sophia chuckled awkwardly, “I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, just happened to walk by. I’m really sorry for causing such a hassle for you and your folks This whole marriage was a comedy of errors, anyway. We’re from different worlds You’ve got your own true love, and I’ve got my pride. Your parents can’t stand me, and I’m not about to twist myself into a pretzel to fit in. So, let’s just call it quits, shall we?”

Brandon’s eyes were locked onto her, his lips pressed into a thin line, silent.-

Sophia held his gaze quietly too.

I know my family background and personal circumstances might not be up to par with yours, but there’s someone out there who’ll think I’m the bee’s knees. I won’t force a square peg into a round hole, Sophia said with a smile, “I wish you and Yolanda all the best May you lovebirds find your happily ever after.”

Brandon remained silent

Sophia didn’t push the conversation further. She offered a polite smile and turned to head back to her room.

“Yolanda is Mr. Frost’s youngest daughter. She went missing when she was five. I was the one who lost sight of her, Brandon suddenly spoke up

Sophia turned around in surprise

“If she’s still alive, she’d be about your age, he continued, locking eyes with her.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know about her.” Sophia instinctively apologized.

“It’s fine,” Brandon cut her off. “There’s no issue of one of us not being good enough for the other. I’m sorry I didn’t take better care of you”

“It’s my fault, Sophia said.

“It’s not on you,” Brandon exhaled softly, regaining his usual composure, “I’ll have the lawyers handle the divorce, and make sure the assets are divided fairly

“No need,” Sophia declined with a smile, “It really wasn’t anything to do with me anyway.”

Brandon didn’t respond, just watched her quietly from a short distance, his gaze as deep and still as a dark, bottomless pool

Sophia’s smile faltered, her hand gesturing towards the back, “Well. I’ll be off then”

forward and enveloped her in a tight

whispered in her ear,

watching his retreating figure. His tall silhouette, stretched by the lights, remained firm and resolute. devoid of

the Brandon she

couldn’t help but chuckle, but soon her tears started to fall uncontrollably,

stop them, but for some reason, she couldn’t, and her throat was tight

returning to her room, she deleted Brandon’s WhatsApp and phone number. After that, she dove

was lucky. Her visa

leaving the country, Sophia found

in, she saw her brother Aaron Yearwood lounging

with a decent education. He’d been a hard worker in his student days. but as the only son their mother Laura Yearwood had spoiled him rotten, never wanting

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about the low salary not worth his time, or claim his boss was a bonehead who didn’t get him in the end, it was always someone else’s fault, never his. So, seven or eight years post-graduation, he had achieved zilch, always daydreaming about striking it rich with his own startup, draining his parents’ retirement funds in the process. Loads of start-ups, loads of money down

didn’t notice Sophia enter, but their mother Laura, busy in the kitchen, did and immediately came out, her eyes instinctively scanning behind

up instinctively toward

asked Sophia, “Did

Sophia replied, “No.”

he really busy then? Aaron dropped his legs from the coffee table, Oh right, did you talk to him? Tell him to give me that resort project. They need someone to do it anyway, better the

lighting, hot property. The sales office has been on our backs, urging us to put down a deposit. If we don’t do it this week, someone else will snatch up

the money,

were thinking of asking Brandon to

borrow one million just like that, with no way to pay it back That’s not borrowing. That’s

your brother lands the resort project, he’ll have the money to

us.

back with interest.

project? You’ve got no experience, no connections, no capital, no credentials. You think your shell company’s

his fair-weather friends that construction was lucrative, he quickly set up a construction

to do the work himself but to subcontract it at a higher price, then

knew what game he was playing and his real caliber. She’d always shut him down, keeping him from approaching

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