Female Novel
Chapter 674
Straightening her hair, Matilda said, “I have to admit that I’m getting old now. I really am, and I’m aboutto become a grandma soon.” Then, she turned into the living room. After a moment of thought, Johntrod after her.
John had nothing planned for the day. When the ladies had eaten, they stood in the garden and Matildacame up with the idea to go shopping. She really wanted to visit the maternity store to stock up onsome baby items.
“Isn’t it still early?” John exclaimed in surprise as he glanced at Sophia’s belly, which was still so flatthat he couldn’t tell she was carrying a baby at all. novelbin
Matilda cast an annoyed look at him. “It’s not early at all. When the first trimester has passed, her bellywill grow very quickly and she won’t fit into her current clothes anymore. It will be handy to buy somematernity clothing now.” Turning to Sophia, she asked, “What do you think?”
Sophia’s eyes were fixed on Matilda. Their relationship for the past few days had turned for the better.As a simple-minded woman, Matilda was merely spoiled by William before this. Now, she was a littlemore sensible and clearly much nicer toward her.
On Sophia’s side, she was not a calculative person and it seemed like there wasn’t such a huge ridgestanding in between them that they couldn’t overcome. Hence, she set aside their past conflicts andnodded after just one glance at her. “You’re right.”
Smiling, Matilda spun her head to face John. “Get ready and let’s go now.”
He stole a glance at Sophia and replied helplessly, “Okay.”
Subsequently, he drove them to a mall in the heart of the city. Since there were many people on aSaturday, John guarded Sophia into the mall on one side while Matilda was on her other side, askingher if she saw any clothes she fancied that she could still wear for some time while her belly was stillflat.
At home, Sophia actually had quite a lot of clothes, and she didn’t go out that often now, so there wasno need to get any more new clothes. However, she was thinking about Robin, who was managing theshop by herself now, and she wanted to drop by the shop later. Well, I’ll buy her some clothes now andbring them straight to her at the shop, she thought.
All three of them were on the ladies clothing level and had just come out of a store when they ran intoold acquaintances. The moment the three of them exited the shop and turned the corner, they sawIsabelle coming out from another shop. Shopping as well, Isabelle had just bought some clothes andwas chatting happily with her mother.
The sight of Isabelle didn’t have any effect on Sophia, but she stole a look at Matilda out of reflex,unsure if she would be awkward at this meeting. Previously, she was always the one next to Isabelle onsuch occasions.
Seeing Isabelle, Matilda didn’t appear awkward; she simply paused for a second before smiling. “Isn’tthis Isabelle? What a coincidence!”
Seeing Isabelle, Matilda didn’t appear awkward; she simply paused for a second before smiling. “Isn’tthis Isabelle? What a coincidence!”
Shocked that Sophia was right next to Matilda, Isabelle froze on the spot and stared unblinkingly at
them for a long while before greeting her.
On the other hand, John was staring at Isabelle as well, mainly because he couldn’t help but link thethings which happened to Sophia before this to Isabelle. Looking at her now, his gaze unwittinglycarried a hint of scrutiny as he scanned her.
Mrs. Bailey was also shocked beyond words seeing Matilda together with Sophia; especially when shehad heard from Isabelle that John had a complete fallout with his mother because of Sophia. She evenheard that he had blacklisted Matilda. Initially, she silently lamented on what a failure as a motherMatilda must have been for her son to turn his back on her. However, from the looks of it now, theredidn’t seem to be any problem between them. Not only that, even her relationship with Sophia seemedto have improved tremendously.