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The girls were carried away by their brainstorming and forgot about the time. When Sophia was finally
back to reality, the sun had already set.
She was surprised to find that their conversation had lasted the whole afternoon. She hurriedly bid
farewell to Robin and took a cab back home.
At home, John had been awake for a while. After waking up, he wandered around the house but could
not find Sophia anywhere. That did not alarm him at all. Instead, he went to his study and requested
that Zack send him some work documents from the office for him to skim through at home.
John was an extreme workaholic, so he only put down his work when Sophia was back.
Walking to the study windows, he stared at Sophia coming out of the cab and running toward the
garden. She did not appear to be acting dramatically about her leg injury anymore.
He left the study and slowly went downstairs, bumping into Sophia, who was taking off her shoes at the
foyer. When she saw him, she asked, “Did you just wake up?”
John chuckled. “I’m done reading a lot of work documents.”
She nodded. “You must be hungry. I’ll make some food.”
John walked over and stood at the kitchen door to stare at Sophia. In the past, she had cooked a few
times. It was back when they were newlyweds that she volunteered to make dinner for him on his days
off.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHowever, she had to abandon her cooking halfway because Mrs. Constance appeared and
reprimanded her, saying that there were helpers at home to cook dinner and that there was no need to
lower oneself like a cheap nanny.
At that time, he was standing at the top of the staircase, about to come down. Upon hearing his mom’s
words, he stopped dead, and without hesitation, he retreated upstairs again.
He did not like his mom’s mean personality, but he did not fancy Sophia as well. Therefore, he chose to
ignore the incident.
Now, when he saw her busy in the kitchen, he did not think that she looked like a cheap nanny at all. It
must be a regular thing for a couple under the same roof to prepare meals together.
Sophia boiled some soup in a clay pot, which would take some time to be ready. In the meantime, she
cooked some rice and stir-fried some dishes.
John was not too hungry anyway. After staring at her for a while, he took a seat on the couch. Sophia
left her phone on the coffee table, which was locked with biometrics.
He took her phone; he knew the passcode to her phone. However, he did not intentionally ask for it.
Sophia was simply an impatient character and blurted it out to him.
John had never been interested in knowing the contents of her phone. He had zero curiosity for her
secrets.
Therefore, he switched on the tv and settled on a technology-related program. The phone was left on
the coffee table, but it suddenly buzzed after some time.
With the side of his eye, he managed to see that there was a WhatsApp message on her phone. Taking
another furtive glance at the kitchen, he confirmed that Sophia had not noticed the message and was
happily occupied.
So, he took her phone and immediately unlocked it, heading straight for her WhatsApp. She had
indeed received a message asking her what she was up to.
It took him some time to click open the message. Ian’s Facebook profile was set to public, and his
latest post was a photo of him with Sophia. The two seemed to have had hotpot together.
John vaguely recalled that Zack had informed him about Sophia going out frequently with Ian.
He continued scrolling down to some older posts, which were mostly posts from Ian’s travels—he’d
take a photo as a memory wherever he visited. John concluded that Ian was a well-traveled man.
Clicking out of Ian’s feed, John went back to the message interface and saw another incoming
message from Ian. This time, the message was quite suggestive. ‘I suddenly miss you.’
John stared at the message for too long until the words stopped making any sense.
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