Chapter 76 Seventy-five

• Brandon’s crestfallen expression should have cajoled me into adding the missing details like I only let her have it for a few days. I have been indoors, she goes to work, so she needs it more than I do. But the thinly veiled hurt in his eyes gladdens me. I hope it hurts as much as it did when he returned his ring, the symbol of our wedding and my necklace.
• Seeing him make to turn around has me saying, “Sophia was here yesterday.” I don’t know why I need to be around him for a few moments longer. “She was in your office.”
• “I know, I sent her. I needed to get something important.” The disappointment and hurt must have shown on my face, he bridges the gap between us, tries to caress my cheek. I shake my head, he has a wife at home but he will rather ask an outsider’s help. “I tried to call you. I have been doing that for days but I keep getting the same responses.”