The Returning Ex

Zack’s gaze remained on the man beside him as he asked, “Um, do you need it right now?”
Sophia laughed at this. “What’s the use of it if you’re going to give it to me after 72 hours?”
He pursed his lips before he replied, “Well, um... okay.” His answer seemed to be a little forced. She ended the call right after
this.
Zack slowly put his phone down as he said, “Boss, about the pills, I—”
“Go on and buy it. We can discuss the rest once you’re back.” John had his head buried in piles of documents as he sat on the
couch by a side. He didn’t sound too troubled by it.
Zack was surprised to see this as he asked, “Are you really going to let her take the pills, my kind boss?”
John paused for a moment before he lifted his head up and answered, “I have no other option this time.” The situation had gotten
out of control, just like the last time.
This time, he felt even a little more dazed and unconscious than the last. However, he wasn’t sure if anything might go wrong as
they didn’t use any protection the last time either.
With a long sigh, Zack agreed. “Alright,” he said as he walked toward the door. But his footsteps then came to a halt as he asked
again, with a soft and inquisitive tone, “Why didn’t you guys try to have kids in the past?”
John seemed a little stunned as he pressed his brows together. He had never thought about this question of having children with
Sophia. It had never been a part of his plan. After a few seconds, he placed his documents down and leaned against the couch
as he said, “Go get the pills.”
With that response, Zack knew that he wouldn’t be able to get any more answers. He didn’t attempt again, and instead, left the
place immediately.
Once he left, John stood up and walked over to the window. The night sea breeze was strong, and the air tasted a little salty. He
took a cigarette out and ran it beneath his nose without lighting it up. Children, he thought.
He never used any protection with Sophia in the past, but they never got pregnant either. She probably wanted children; I
sometimes saw her secretly calculating the dates.

She even set an alarm in her phone to remind her when it was her ovulation period. He had always felt rather annoyed by her
meticulous ways of calculating dates, so he often found excuses to spend more time at work or fall asleep in the study whenever
this happened.
Sophia never actually told him whether this bothered her. For the longest time, he felt like she was merely trying to get a child in
order to latch on to him. After all, she was miserably poor before she got married into the Constance Family—she probably
wanted to seize this opportunity to get back up on her feet once again.
Now, she no longer wanted this, probably because the benefits of their divorce was enough to satisfy her needs. That was why
she no longer insisted on having a child.
John crumpled the cigarette in his palm and threw it out the window.
Zack dropped by and knocked on Sophia’s front door before she finished her meal. She still had food in her mouth as she
opened the door and said, “You’re pretty fast.”
He stood at the entrance and looked into the room as he asked, “You’re eating?”
After taking the pills from him, she turned and walked toward the dining table while replying, “I hadn’t eaten much, so I felt
hungry.” She took the two pills out, each to be consumed at a separate time. She had never eaten these pills, so she paid a lot of
attention as she read the manual.
Zack hesitated for a moment before he followed her in and said, “You don’t actually need to eat this. If you really get pregnant,
then perhaps...”
She scoffed as she turned around and looked at him, “Perhaps what? Perhaps I’ll get to mess around with your boss for a while
more? I think I’ve had enough.” She dug a pill out and swallowed it without any water. “We’ve gotten a divorce; why is there a
need for us to still get tangled up in each other’s business?
If I really couldn’t bear to leave him, I wouldn’t have signed the divorce papers so gladly in the first place.” The pill might have
caused discomfort in her throat, so Sophia then hurriedly took her glass up to sip on her juice.
Zack felt oddly uneasy as he watched her acting this way. With a soft sigh, he said, “It might have been my fault this time. I
shouldn’t have made my own decisions in arranging for the two of you to come together.”

“It’s fine. I don’t think it’s a big deal,” she spoke with a laugh. Perhaps John might have another woman under his blankets
tonight if it weren’t for the fact that I’m here.
With the current mental state that Sophia was in, she didn’t wish for that to happen just yet. However, she then thought of
something. “If I do get pregnant, the Constance Family probably would want the baby, right?”