Chapter 19

In the office, Kent couldn’t help but sneak peeks at Brandon in the inner office now and then.

After looking over at him, he couldn’t resist giving Susan the once over, his eyes scrutinizing her until she got ticked off, “What’s up?”

She was still miffed about running into him earlier and his incessant babbling.

Kent shot back, not in the best mood either. “You sure know how to backdoor your way in with finesse.”

“That’s got nothing to do with me. I didn’t dare dream of sneaking through your boss’s backdoor He’s the one who came to me asking for the papers

Susan found it odd recalling how Brandon reacted when she mentioned Sophia earlier, not at all like he was indifferent about Sophia.

She pondered for a moment, then leaned in closer to Kent, lowering her voice, “Hey, let me ask you something, how were things between your boss and his wife before?”

Kent glanced at her, “Why the nosiness?

“Just curious

She leaned in closer again, “Come on, spill it.

“No clue

Susan was speechless.

So much for her little investigation.

“But, Kent eyed her, you sure have a knack for picking your moments. Mr. Crawley never used to give anyone special

treatment before.”

Susan said. Not even Sophia?

“You’d have to ask Mr. Crawley about that. Kent stroked his chin, Sophia never asked Mr. Crawley for any favors. Who knows if he’d make an exception for her? Maybe he’s been secretly hoping Sophia would come to him”

Susan drew out her voice in disbelief, Pssh

“Don’t be so quick to dismiss it. Didn’t you notice? The moment you brought up Sophia, his attitude shifted

Susan scoffed at him, “That’s not a change in attitude. It just shows your boss is still sore about being dumped by Sophia and can’t get over the blow to his ego.”

his eyes, not

Kent

finished reviewing the proposal and hit

hung up and looked at Susan, “Ms

Brandon’s office before heading

“Come in.”

and cool voice came from inside Susan pushed

your proposal, and I think the area

looked surprised, “So, do

didn’t say that.”

Susan kept silence

on whether we’ll go ahead with the partnership still needs to be evaluated by the

Susan nodded. “No problem.”

asked further, “When can I

“Two weeks”

weeks to get a response, plus the time it would take to finalize contracts, it could take months to seal the deal. This timeline was too

speed things up a bit? Susan asked, adding with a buttered-up smile, “My colleagues are all vying for other clients, and

its fate too. If it does get

was indirectly hinting that he wasn’t that interested

if it was just business talk. She couldn’t quite read Brandon’s mind and didn’t dare appear too anxious, so she chuckled, “True, I’ll just wait

this, she couldn’t help but rant to Sophia

she patiently listened to Susan’s rant. When Susan

instantly noticed the subtle change in Sophia’s

could settle the whole Starlight Hotel deal on his own, no need to

stood up, So, was

stall you for no reason? If he’s not interested, he’d just say

thought for a

and straightforward. If he was interested, he would have made the decision on the

confused too,

she was just

even

but instead. she found herself summoned to the Starlight Group for discussions every day, as if they were very interested

talks was Kent, and they took place either

room.

Brandon day after day, seeing him more times

and Sophia were like two peas in a pod, and with her job having her run around all over the place year-round, it was pretty standard for her to duck out of work to hang with Sophia or hit her up during the holidays. But even on those days off or weekends, the chances of bumping into Brandon were slim to none. She couldn’t figure out if Brandon was seriously a workaholic who never took a break or if he was purposely dodging her visits to give her and Sophia some space. But let’s be real, in the past two years, Susan hadn’t exactly been

if he was home and she oppped over, he’d do nothing more than toss a polite hey her way before scooting off to his room.

pensive.

but gripe to Sophia over a WhatsApp video call, “Dragging me to their company every day. Can’t they just get their act together, lay it all out at

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