The Returning EX (Sophia and John)

Sophia tossed and turned the entire night as she couldn’t seem to sleep well. She was exhausted, but it felt like she only
managed to fall asleep when it was nearly dawn. Once the skies turned bright, she woke up with her body feeling tired but her
mind wide awake.
She stood up and walked to the window, where she glanced out to find the place quiet and empty, with no signs of any workers.
Everyone seemed to be especially active at night, so perhaps they were still in bed now. After looking out the window for a while,
she went to wash up and pack her items.
Her phone rang when she was almost done with packing. She knew who it was before she even looked at her phone, but she
went over and checked it anyway. As expected, it was Trevor. She picked his call up.
“Miss Gwendolyn, are you awake?” He sounded bubbly and upbeat, his voice coated with a hint of joy.
“I am,” she murmured. He then told her that he was already downstairs, to which she responded, “Hold on; I’ll be down in a
minute.”
She was already done with most of her packing, so she simply grabbed her bag and left the room. She caught sight of Zack right
as she was about to head to the elevator. He looked well-groomed and was heading toward the elevator as well.
However, Sophia wasn’t sure if John was in the elevator himself; she didn’t feel like seeing him right then. Her sleep had just
been disturbed by thoughts of him—both before and after their marriage—and she felt a little displeased whenever she thought
of him now. The memories she recalled were all unpleasant ones, after all.
She therefore slowed her footsteps down as she strolled bit by bit toward the elevator, hoping that she could just wait for the next
one since she was in no hurry. Zack had already gone in, but he then stepped out of the elevator again as he grinned toward her
and gestured for her to come over.

“Oh, hurry up and come over! Hurry; I’ll wait for you!” She pulled a long face as she unwillingly walked over. To her surprise, John
wasn’t in the elevator. “Why are you alone? Where’s your boss?” she asked as she walked in.
He raised a brow as he explained, “Thanks to the trick that someone pulled yesterday, your ex-husband now has some of his
own matters to settle and therefore gave me a day off.
I have the whole day to myself today.” He then turned and looked toward Sophia as he asked, “Where are you going all dressed
up like this?”
“I’m heading out for a date with someone,” she answered as she stared straight at the elevator buttons.
He blinked a few times before he replied, “Bring me along, then. I wanted to go out, but I was still looking for routes and couldn’t
decide where to go, so I think it’d be better if I just followed you.
With a cold scoff, she said, “Go walk around yourself. I didn’t offer to bring you along.” She walked out of the elevator once it
arrived downstairs, and Zack tagged along behind her.
Trevor was already waiting at the lobby when she walked over and asked, “Are you all set? Are we leaving now?”
Zack shamelessly followed behind her and said, “I’m done with my packing too. Let’s go!”
Trevor had met Zack before as he was the man who was trying to flirt around with Sophia at the beach previously. With his facial
muscles tensed up, Trevor spoke, “Y-You’re...”
Zack gave a casual and friendly response by saying, “Oh, me? I just happened to be free today. Sophia and I had an agreement,
so we’re all going out to have fun together.” Sophia shot him an annoyed glance. Ignoring this, Zack grinned cheerily and patted
on Trevor’s shoulder as he said, “Let’s go.
I’ll tell you more about myself on the way there.” Trevor looked at Sophia and saw that she didn’t seem to be against it, so he had
no choice but to agree with a frown on his face.

Zack walked next to Sophia and whispered in her ear when Trevor wasn’t paying attention to them, “I have a feeling that your ex-
husband has planned all of this out when he decided to give me a holiday today.”
She remained silent. He then continued, “Your ex-husband was probably trying to give me a chance to follow you around. Don’t
you see? That man actually still has feelings for you.”
To this, she stared at him like he was a madman and scoffed, “Are you still living in dreamland?”
He raised his brows as he said, “Look, why don’t you believe me? I told your ex-husband that I wanted to bring him along with
you two yesterday night, but he told me he wasn’t interested before he gave me a day off.
He’d definitely feel too ashamed to follow along, but I’m not ashamed—that’s why he sent me here as his spy. How could he
think that I wouldn’t be able to see through his sneaky little plan?” Sophia simply rolled her eyes in disbelief.
After some further contemplation, Zack said, “You don’t believe me, do you? Hold on; I’ll give your ex-husband a call.” With that,
he immediately pulled his phone out and made a call to John.
John was already awake, and he was quick to pick the call up. “What is it?”
With a cheeky grin, Zack said, “Boss, I’m already with Sophia now. Don’t worry; I have full control of all her schedules and
everything else.”