Female Novel
Chapter 716
After giving it a thought, Sophia said, “Maybe someone doesn’t want me to give birth to this baby.”
Twisting her head and peering at her over her shoulders, Matilda could guess who she meant. If therewas really someone who didn’t want her to have the baby, there was only one person who came to hermind.
A few minutes later, Sophia’s phone rang while she was sitting there on her bed. She glanced at thecaller and frowned. Then, she rejected the call without hesitation.
Taken aback, Matilda asked, “Who’s calling? Why aren’t you answering the call?”
Letting out a sigh, she answered, “That’s a spam call, and it has called me many times before, so Idon’t feel like picking it up.”
Matilda merely acknowledged with an ‘I see’, and she didn’t think anything else of it. Out of boredom,Sophia browsed the Internet on her cell phone and lay down on the bed again. Thankfully, she wasalways feeling sleepy from her pregnancy, so she could catch some sleep whenever she had nothingelse to do. After she had Matilda help her to close the curtain halfway and block out the light on herside, she drifted off to sleep.
While Sophia was sleeping comfortably, her cell phone rang again. As she was still half-asleep, shepicked up the call without even checking the caller when she fumbled for her cell phone.
The voice on the other end sounded cheery. “What are you doing, Soph?”
Because she didn’t hear anything clearly, she didn’t say anything in reply. However, her silence didn’t
dampen the spirits of the caller at all as she continued, “I’m just done cleaning up the house. Yoursister is a really naughty child and always messes up the place, which reminds me of how you werewhen you were young. You were so obedient, a complete opposite of her.”
Opening her eyes slowly, Sophia stared at her phone and hung up. What’s in the mind of thesepeople? They even have the cheek to put up a show of fake family affection. After she switched off herphone, she rolled over and continued sleeping.
Meanwhile, John went into the living room and chatted casually with the supervisor. However, while hewas speaking, he would peer over at that guy from time to time, and that made it seem like they werehaving a discussion about him.
It was clear as day to him that that guy was feeling unsettled. Even though it wasn’t apparent that hewas avoiding his gaze, the guy didn’t have the nerve to meet his gaze directly either. John wasn’t sucha perfect judge of character, but he was sure that there was something suspicious about that guy, andhe felt relieved that Sophia was sharp enough. Or else, this guy would have gotten away with someshady business on this day.
Following that, it probably hit that guy that something was wrong. Hence, he went to the supervisor andtold him that he was feeling unwell, requesting to take the day off.
It was obvious from the supervisor’s face that he was unhappy about it as he said in an angry, hushedvoice, “You’re here to stand in for another person. Who is going to take your place if you’re gone aswell?”
Embarrassed, the guy said in insistence, “But I’m really feeling unwell and a little dizzy.”
Waving him off, the supervisor sighed. “Okay, okay, say no more. Go back now since you won’t be ofany help even if you stay here.”
The guy nodded and apologized humbly. “Thank you so much. I’m really sorry to have caused youtrouble.”
Zack, who was in the yard, watched as that guy came out of the house and placed the tools back intothe car before walking toward the exit of the residential area. Grinning, he waited a few more secondsand trailed after him.
In the living room, John slowly spun around and instructed the workers to keep their noises downbefore heading upstairs.
Sophia was sound asleep, and she felt a kiss on her cheek before hearing John whispering to her, “I’msorry that I placed you in a plight.” novelbin
Initially, Sophia wanted to throw some sarcastic remarks at him. Nevertheless, all those mean wordswere gone when she heard his apology. Sitting on the edge of the bed, he leaned down and huggedher, but she didn’t avoid his touch.