Ryan POV
I still had urgent work to deal with, so I was at the office that evening.
The sudden ring of my phone broke the silence.
I glanced toward the device sitting beside me.
Scarlett.
I’d looked at her name several times over the past few days, and now that she was actually calling, I found myself unable to concentrate on the documents in front of me.
We hadn’t spoken or interacted at all recently.
I’d deliberately kept my distance because I needed to think seriously about whether there was any point in pursuing a relationship with Scarlett when I knew she was still living with her ex-husband.
She’d insisted that she had no intention of remarrying him.
She’d clarified that she couldn’t get him out of her home.
From where I stood, the two of them still seemed far too
