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“Huh?” Sofia arched an eyebrow when she looked at the photographs that Josef handed her. “This-”
This was the current update about Charlotte’s state. The Charlotte in the images was far from the
Charlotte that Sofia knew. “Teresa was hiding her?” Why?
However, her question was answered by the next few images and videos from the tablet. Apparently,
Teresa caused the miscarriage and instead of ending Charlotte’s life, she chose to hide her somewhere
remote.
Because of this, the Charlotte in the video looked like she had already lost her mind. She was so thin;
that no one would probably recognize her as the beautiful starlet. Her face was pale withrge bags
under her eyes. Even her gaze seemedckluster as if she had already lost everything in life.
Josef informed her that Charlotte had been in this ce for a month. “And… Alexander told you that I
can do everything with this
information?” she asked.
“Yes,” Josef said.
Just as she was about to ask more questions, her phone vibrated. She quickly answered it. “Have you
had your lunch?” It was Alexander. His voice sounded too warm, as if… as if he had no idea about the
images that Josef had just handed her.
“Isn’t it currently midnight on your end?” she asked. Alexander was currently abroad for some project.
“I missed you,” there was a husk in his voice.
Sofia signaled Josef to leave her office. Alexander’s secretaryplied without saying anything. “Josef
just arrived. Why did you send him back? Who is going to help you there?” she asked.
“I will be going back tomorrow, anyway. I am going to assume you have already received my gift?”
“A gift…” she pursed her lips, her gazended on the images on her table. For a few seconds, she said
nothing. “A gift you say?”
“You didn’t like it?”
“I was wondering where Charlotte was…” Sofja said. From time to time.
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she would wonder about the woman that she had treated as her sister for years. Her social media had
been deactivated and it seemed like she disappeared off the face of the Earth. However, she never
searched for her whereabouts.
To Sofia, it would be better if they did not see each other again. So much has happened in these past
few months, and all she wanted was to move on. Currently, she is doing fine.
Thepany is flourishing and even her rtionship with Alexander was going well. Lawrence was still
in prison, and Daniel was currently in Asia doing some therapy to calm him down. Thest time she
heard, Daniel was in Bali, Indonesia. It was Alexander who told her this information.
“It seems that you already knew about this information for a long time now?” Sofia uttered.
“Hmmm….”
“What do you want me to do with this? Report it to the police?”
“I originally wanted to use it against Teresa Beaumont,” his honesty astounded her. “A video of her
doing something like this would be enough to ruin her life. But that would not be enough.”
“Then….”
“Daniel now refused to talk to his mother.”
“You mean?”
“He cut off contact.” Alexander made a deliberate pause. She could hear some movements on the
phone, and then she heard the sound of waves crashing against the shore. Alexander told her that the
hotel he was staying at was next to the Ocean and promised to bring her there one day. “What could be
worse than a son hating the mother that loved him so much?” he asked.
“You wanted him to hate his mother?” Sofia asked. Until now, Alexander refused to tell her why he was
doing this. She did not ask him, as she knew that he would tell her his reasons once he was ready.
“Yes.” His answer came almost immediately. “Do you think that was cruel?”
Cruel? “Yes,” Sofia said. Everyone in the business world already knew that
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Alexander Beaumont was a cruel man. The thing is… Sofia doesn’t actually care. Perhaps it was her
selfishness. Perhaps she is just cruel. But Alexander never treated her badly. If anything, he was the
one who helped her the most.
She heard him chuckle. “Really?” he asked.
“Yeah…” Sofia said.
“And… do you dislike that?” he asked, his voice a little low.
Dislike? “No,” the answer came before she could even think about his question.
“So what do you want to do to Teresa and your sister?” he asked.
“I would like to report it to the police.”
“Hmmm….”
“Then Adam will be helping you. He already received the details and will
be working with the authorities tomorrow. A news agency will then release news about you and your
efforts to investigate your sister’s disappearance. The news…” Soon, Alexander started telling her
everything that was going to happen. From the press to making sure that this would not ruin her name,
to Teresa’s arrest and some other safety
measures.
“You already knew that I am going to report this to the authorities?” she asked. Was she that
predictable?
“Yes.”
She pursed her lips, her breathing calm and collected. Soon, a smile appeared on her lips. “Silly…” she
mumbled.
“What did you just say?”
“There is no need to involve me in this matter.” Yet he did. Why, you ask? Because he wanted to make
sure that Sofia’s name wouldn’t get dragged into the mud by Charlotte’s fans.
In the online world, everything was pretty unpredictable. One person could easily create a story that
would affect Sofia’s name. To prevent this, Alexander made it seem like it was Sofia who wanted to find
her sister and identally stumbled upon the kidnapping. Then Sofia immediately reported this matter
to the authorities and in response, the police rescued
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Charlotte from the evil Teresa.
This would take care of both Charlotte and Teresa too! This was killing three birds with one stone. A
simple move that would wrap up everything.
“But I really appreciate it,” Sofia said. “Thank you.”
“I am your husband…”
“I know. I just want to thank you,” she interrupted him. She knew that he would start telling her about
his responsibility to protect her but this was different and Sofia knew it.
There was a brief silence on the other line before she spoke.”Then thank me when I get home.”
“What?” a mischievous smile appeared on her lips.
“I said-
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“What do you want me to do to show my gratitude?” she interrupted him.
“I thought you already knew?” he asked.
She chuckled in response. “Did I?”
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There was a low chuckle in response. “My flight willnd at six… in the evening,” he said.
“I thought you would be home at nine” she beamed. His flight was scheduled to arrive at nine in the
evening.
“What can I do? My wife just told me she’s willing to do everything to show how much she appreciates
my efforts.”
“I did not say that.”
“You did.”
“I didn’t.”
“Then are you not going to do it?” he asked.
That shut her up real quick. “Then I’ll see you tomorrow,” she mumbled. “Ah… by the way… didn’t I
already tell you not to call me during office hours?” It was distracting her.
“Are you ming me for missing you?” he retorted.
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“Fine… I’ll forgive you this time.” The man had been in China for three days and he had been acting
like this since he left. She already told him not to call her at least during the day, but he kept on doing
that. “It should be around midnight on your end. You should sleep.”
“I will… I just wanted to hear your voice.”
Sofia did not know what to say. For some reason, she could feel her face
heat up. She frowned. “Then I will see you tomorrow.”
“Call me before you sleep,” he said.
“Right,” she responded before ending the call. Then Sofia immediately held her head back, her
expression unreadable. Her face felt hot-too hot. Was she going to have a fever?
In the end, she could only smile. Silly Sofia, she thought inwardly. They had been in this limbo for a few
weeks now. Their rtionship had improved and they had been treating each other like husband and
wife, yet not one of them had uttered ‘I love you’ first.
Why was it bugging her too much? Those are merely words. What was so important about it?
Well, if she wanted to, then she could just tell him that, right? But does she really love him? She closed
her eyes.
Love.
What is love?
She thought about her rtionship with Daniel in the past and quickly realized how different her current
rtionship with Alexander was.
Currently, her rtionship with Alexander seemed warmer. It is morefortable. But does that mean
she is in love with him? Or does she just love the feeling of being with him?
“Aish…” she pped her own forehead. It’s still daytime and she had a lot of things to take care of. She
straightened her back and then ced the images of Charlotte back into the folder. Then she called
Josef and asked him to take care of everything.
She cannot just sit down here and think about Alexander all day! She has apany to manage!
“Miss Amores, please ask the team to go to the board room so we can
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proceed with what was scheduled today,” Sofia said. The only thing that could calm her mind was more
work. So, she started working.
What started as her trying to forget about Alexander soon turned into Sofia overworking herself. She
turned the lights inside her office before she eyed her watch. If her phone hadn’t died just now, she
wouldn’t have stopped what she was doing.
It was a few minutes after one in the morning. Slowly, she made her way out of the building and into the
car waiting for her. Then she instructed Miss Amores to drive her back to Alexander’s ce.
Sighing, Sofia walked inside the t, intending to take a nice quick bath before going to sleep.
To her surprise, however, the light inside the bedroom was already on when she walked in.
Almost immediately, her eyes widened.