Female Novel
Chapter 36
Sophia glanced toward John, who stood rooted onto his spot. She no longer continued with the rest ofher sentence. After a while, she turned back to the singer.
The singer hadn’t noticed John’s presence initially, and he flashed a smile toward Sophia as he said,“Let’s go; it’s time to go back.”
However, John walked toward them then and tugged onto Sophia’s arm as he said, “It’s late. Go backwith me.”
She exclaimed in surprise when he held onto her, “What’re you doing here?” But John wasn’t in themood to explain himself, and he therefore held onto her wrist before tugging her toward the direction ofthe hotel.
She protested and wailed as she turned around to look at the singer behind her. “My friend’s still here!My friend…” John’s firm grip remained on her arm as he strode forward and pulled her along, as if hehadn’t heard her words at all.
The singer no longer followed them as he could tell that they knew each other. He simply waved towardSophia when she turned around to glance at him. With large strides, John led Sophia all the way backto the hotel. He only let go of his grip once they were at the elevator; her wrist had a red mark around itby then.
She held onto her wrist as she glared at him. “What are you doing?”
John pushed the button for the elevator before he turned around to look at her. Her eyes were red, andher hair rather messy; her cheeks red and flushed as she panted, probably because it was tiring for her
to keep up with his pace. This look… her look... He couldn’t help but recall how Sophia looked whenshe was under him just a while ago. Noticing this, he quickly averted his gaze and stared instead at thebutton of the elevator. “It’s so late and you’re still out with a stranger; aren’t you afraid that it might bedangerous?”
She rotated and massaged her wrist while she furrowed her brows and said, “What? I’d like to thinkthat who I’m with and where I’m at is my own business.”
He scoffed in response to this, “Do you think I’d care for you if it weren’t for the fact that I had promisedGrandpa to take good care of you?” novelbin
With a mocking expression on her face, she said, “Just forget it. You once promised me that we’d neverget a divorce, but look at us now.” As much as John hated to admit it, her words were indeed true, andhe couldn’t lose his temper for it. She glanced at the screen in the elevator as she continued, “You’vepromised me countless things, but you can’t even fulfil the first and most basic ones, let alone all theones that followed later.” She paused for a while, but she couldn’t stop herself from continuing. “Youcan’t control me for the rest of my life, John. You’ll have other women in the future, and I’ll have othermen. We shouldn’t continue with this muddled relationship between us.” The elevator door opened, andshe stepped in.
In comparison to her relatively-bloodshot eyes, her expression was much colder. After some thought,John followed her into the elevator, and then Sophia pressed the button for their floor. As the elevatormoved upward, she said, “I’m thankful for what you’ve done, but there’s no need to do the same thingin the future. From now on, whatever happens is my business; we no longer have a relationship withone another ever since we signed the divorce papers.”
He gradually frowned a little before relaxing his facial muscles. He then nodded and uttered, “Fine. I
won’t meddle with your business in the future.”
She no longer responded to him after that. Once the elevator arrived, John stepped out first. She stoodstill for a moment before exiting the elevator and stood rooted to the spot as he walked straight to hisown room.
She felt an ache in her chest and only went back to her room after waiting for a while. It was late, andshe felt a little under the weather after standing in the ocean breeze earlier, so she took another showerbefore she went to bed.
Her phone was right beside her pillow, and she used it to send a message to Zack. It simply instructedhim to cancel the following schedules that he had arranged as she didn’t feel like seeing John for theupcoming days. She told him that she’d arrange her own schedules in the future. Zack didn’t reply toher message, perhaps because he hadn’t seen it.