Chapter 1117
Perhaps Sophia had agreed to turn up at the hospital out of fear for Sandra, but Sandra knew it was
more likely than not that they conceded out of fear of the Yard Family.
The situation now was not under Sophia’s or Cooper’s control; it wasn’t as if they could do anything
about Anne’s infatuation with Cooper.
Cooper was left with no choice but to marry her!
Anne’s family longed to return to Bayside City and as Anne was about to be part of the Yards, they
had hoped she would marry into the local upper-ss social scene. The Yard Family had initially set their
eyes upon the Fletchers, but were let down immensely by their inability to make things work. Now was
the chance for the Mitchells to rise to the asion.
Sandra had thought that perhaps one of the Mitchell boys could capture Anne’s heart; s, the woman
had be obsessed with Cooper instead.
Sandra had no intentions to make things easy for Cooper in the event Anne did marry him. While the
Mitchells would be inws with the Yards, Sandra needed to make sure that Anne would always be
on her side and never Sophia’s. To do that, she would have to ruin both Sophia and Cooper’s reputation
in front of Anne’s family, namely the Yards and the Osbornes.
After that, she could easily use Anne as a stepping stone to get closer to Anna Yard and if Sandra could
marry into the Yard Family, everything would fall into ce.
If Cooper really were to marry Anne, the Yards would never allow her to move out of the family home,
which meant Cooper would have to move into their ce of residence instead. This could provide the
Mitchells the perfect excuse to keep all of Cooper’s assets under the Mitchells’ family name.
For hundreds of years, it was never a concept for any son of the head of the Mitchell Family to move into
their wife’s ce of residence after marriage; the very idea of Cooper being forced to do so would
With that, Sandra could kill three birds with one stone!
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Hanging up the call, Sandra turned to look at Anne. “Don’t worry,” she consoled. “Sophia ising over
soon. I’ll make sure to put her in her ce!”
Anne broke into a small smile upon hearing this. Shey in bed as she recuperated, looking pale after
her suicidal endeavors which saw her slitting her own wrists and hanging herself.
“You know Cooper likes you—” Sandra started to say. “—but Sophia has been getting in his way of
pursuing you. She’s worried that if you and Cooper have kids one day, she’d lose out on the family
assets. Don’t worry though, because I’ll stop her from ruining everything.” Pausing, Sandra gazed down
at Anne with a serious look on her face. “Remember, Anne—you’ve got the looks and you’re a Yard.
Nobility runs in your blood. You have suitors lining up for you all the way to France! If you ask me,
Cooper should be honored that you’ve taken an interest in him at all. You’re obviously way out of his
league!”
Anne’s heart fluttered at the thought of Cooper. She had known he was the one for her from the very
moment sheid eyes on him, and she would do anything to marry him.
However, a surge of fury overcame her as she thought about how Sophia was trying toe between
her and Cooper.
How dare Sophia try to disrupt what she and Cooper had? How dare she try to stop true love in its
tracks?
Sandra leaned in and continued, “I’ll let you in on this little secret. Cooper has never been in love before
but Sophia’s mother—who was a young, lowly servant—seduced Cooper and somehow made him fall for
her. He was young and he had no idea what he was doing, but he got that b*tch pregnant. Then, she
tried to use her pregnancy to force Cooper into marrying her.”
“It was a dirty move. She thought that she could use her pregnancy as leverage to marry Cooper and live
her life as mistress of the family, but little did she know that the Mitchells saw right through her
despicable act. In the end, they sent her packing and told her to get rid of the child!”
Anne’s eyes had widened to the size of saucers as she took all of this in. She had never heard of
anything like it—how anyone could be so wicked was beyond her! She asked urgently, “What happened
after that?”
“Well—” Sandra began with fervor. “—Sophia’s mother realized that there was no way she could marry
into the Mitchells, so she found herself an honest man and passed off the child as his instead. The man
was an Edwards, so she took on his shares and yed mistress for a couple of years. When the family
discovered the truth, they cast her out.”
“What? I can’t believe she did that! How shameless of her!” Anne gasped, affronted.
Sandra did not stop with the lies—she was practically a ywright at this point. “Cooper was in an
ident over a decade ago and he went into hiding after that, but when he returned a couple of years
ago, Sophia somehow found out that he was her biological father. She tracked him down and won him
overpletely. I don’t know how she did it but Cooper will do anything for her, even if it means going
against the Mitchells.”
“You have to watch out for Sophia. She’s no ordinary, simpering wench; she has Taylor Murray wrapped
around her little finger and she made Cooper betray his own family. You can’t underestimate her.”
“Also, that brother of hers is not to be overlooked. I don’t know how he ended up as the adopted son of
the Michel family. He was close to bing the heir to the family and the conglomerate, but thank
goodness he was kicked out of the family before that happened! These siblings are as scheming as they
Anne felt chills run down her spine after Sandra was done with her storytelling. She couldn’t help but feel
sorry for Cooper.
He waspletely swindled by Sophia and her family!
If she didn’t get rid of Sophia and Linus, Cooper would suffer in their schemes forever!
Anne was determined to rescue Cooper from this horrible fate. She had to let him see how evil Sophia
and her brother were!
Satisfied with how angry Anne looked, Sandra went on to add fuel to fire. “Why don’t you show them
who’s really in charge here? You’re Anne Yard. They are meant to show you respect and you should
make them.”
Anne nodded fiercely at that and Sandra mirrored her.
Everything was going ording to Sandra’s n. Now, even if Anne did end up marrying Cooper, she
would never think of Sophia and her brother as anything but a pair of wicked twins.
On the other hand, Sandra could soon find herself in the Yards’ good graces, seeing as she and Anne
were bing such good friends.
It would be even better if she could end up marrying either Callum or Cade.
Eventually, Sophia turned up as expected.
She had flown over in a chopper, not wanting to waste any time. She could hardly wait to give Anne two
ps across the face.
Sophia was fuming, unable toprehend how shameless Anne was.
“Miss Anne,” the bodyguard greeted in a low voice after rushing through the door. “Miss Sophia has
arrived.”
Anne was well on her way to bing a youngdy of the Yard family and certainly that would have
warranted her a royal title if they were in ancient times. She felt important as she indulged in the privilege
of being escorted by the Yards’ security team.
She had made sure that the security team would give Sophia a hard time when she arrivedter!
“Right. Let her in,” Anne ordered in an imperative tone. She didn’t like speaking this way but she was a
youngdy of the Yard family now and she had to act like one in front of others.
The bodyguard hurried out of the room and brought Sophia in. She had arrived with several bodyguards
in her wake, all of them wearing the insignia of the Mitchell family, which was crafted during Cooper’s
leadership.
“I hear somebody has tried to kill herself because of my father, so I decided to bring a little gift to cheer
her up,” Sophia mused. Following this, somethingnded in a thump on the headboard behind Anne; one
of the bodyguards had thrown a bottle of brain health supplements and as Anne turned to nce at it,
she saw that the supplements were meant for geriatrics.
She red at Sophia incredulously as she brought her hand down on the table andmanded,
“Sophia, you b*tch! Stay away from your father! You have no right toe between us, not when we’re
about to be married!”
Sophia had dressed for business today. She wore a white blouse, which was tucked into a pair of ck
and white checkered pzzo trousers. She had coupled her outfit with a pair of simple stilettos and her
hair had been pulled back into a no-nonsense chignon. Her look waspleted with a pair of oversize
shades that covered half her face.
Lifting her shades, Sophia gazed at Anne with bemusement, clearly impervious to her threats. “Oh?” she
sneered. “So, you intend to marry my father, but what do you have to offer? Your long list of suitors who
have lined up all the way to France?”
Anne lifted her chin with the hope of intimidating Sophia, then retorted, “I am a youngdy of the Yard
Family! I have plenty to offer!”
“A youngdy of the Yard Family?” Sophia sputtered before she burst intoughter. She wiped away her
tears as a smirk fixed itself onto her face. “Tell me then, princess—how many shares do you own in the
Ronney Group? Are you next in line to take over the conglomerate? Do you even matter to the rest of the
Ronney Group?”