The Indifferent Ex-Husband: Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate novel Chapter 557

After breakfast, Brandon dropped Theresa back home and left her in Grace's care.

Maybe it was the haunting image of him with blood at the corner of his mouth from the night before, but Theresa wasn't her usual obedient self this time. As soon as Brandon tried to put her down, she instinctively clung onto his clothes for dear life.

This instantly took Brandon back to the time when Sophia was in trouble, and Theresa cried her eyes out, begging Sophia not to go. He felt a lump in his throat and his nose tingled with the onset of tears.

The incident had cast a much longer shadow over Theresa than anyone else.

"How about I take Theresa to the office, would that be nice?"

This time, Brandon didn't try to persuade her to stay at home like before. Instead, he did his best to soothe her.

Finally, the tension on Theresa's little face eased, and she nodded gently, "Okay."

When Brandon and Theresa arrived at the office, everyone couldn't help but sneak curious peeks at Brandon.

It was the first time he had shown up at the office since Sophia's accident.

Even though everyone was still pretty clueless about the nature of Sophia and Brandon's relationship, as they had hardly ever indulged in any public displays of affection at the office. The closest they had come to that was when Tia had made a beeline for the cafeteria to confess her feelings to Brandon.

In the video that had gone viral across the company chat groups, Brandon didn’t linger on Tia’s face. Instead, his gaze had drifted over her shoulder to Sophia, who was not far behind her. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he took Sophia's hand and left Tia standing there mid-confession.

That was as close as the company got to witnessing any kind of romance between Brandon and Sophia.

Back then, apart from the employees at Star·Dempsey Architects and a select few, nobody knew who Sophia was.