2024-08-21 09:43:49As Alex approached the house entrance, Sophia noticed that Alex
was behind her."Haven’t you had enough?"
"Believe me," Alex replied, "running into you is the last thing I wanted today."
Sophia stepped out, blocking his path.
"So, what is it then? Are you here to remind me of the biggest mistake of my life?"
"Mistake?" Alex’s tone grew colder.
"I could say the same. You think I enjoyed waking up and realizing I’d wasted my time with someone so shallow?"
"Shallow?" Sophia’s eyes flashed with anger.
"You’re just bitter because you know I’m right. You’re nothing but a loser, a gold-digger."
Alex laughed, shaking his head.
"You’re delusional. I don’t need anything from you, least of your money."
Sophia stepped even closer, her finger jabbing the air between them.
"Then what do you want? To ruin my life even more?"
"No, I’m not here to ruin anything." Alex locked his eyes with hers. "I’m meeting my fiancée."
"Your fiancée? You have a fiancée?" Sophia shocked.
"I’m here to meet someone named Sophia Lancaster at this address," Alex’s patience wearing thin.
"I’m not looking for you. So, if you can help me out, call her, and I’ll leave as soon as possible."
WTF?!
Sophia paused, her expression shifting from shock to realization.
"Wait... you're here for that Sophia Lancaster?"
Alex coldly replied.
"Yes! Can you please just get her? I don't have time for games."
Sophia bit her lip, trying to mask the confusion swirling inside her.
"There’s no need to call anyone. I’m... I’m Sophia Lancaster."
They stood there, staring at each other in stunned silence.
Just then, a voice called out from inside the mansion.
"Alexander Leonhart!"
An old man stepped out, his face lighting up with a wide smile.
"Master told me you would come today! What are you doing out there?"
"Grandfather," Sophia called.
The old man, Abraham Lancaster, turned towards them, his eyes twinkling with amusement.
He looked between them, his smile growing even wider as if he had been waiting for this moment.
"So, you've met Alex, your fiancé. It’s great to know you both know each other."
Sophia quickly interjected, "We are not—"
"Call your parents, Sophia," Abraham said, cutting her off.
"Gather everyone in the Great Hall. I have an announcement. You both are going to get married today."
Sophia stood, shocked.
"Finally, my long-held wish can be fulfilled today," Abraham’s voice trembled with happiness.
He walked over to Alex, his hand reaching out to grasp Alex’s.
"Come, let’s go to the Great Hall. You’ll meet your in-laws."
Sophia watched them walk away, disbelief and anger surging through her.
She had lost her virginity to that man, and now she was supposed to lose her future too.
"This can't be happening!"
She had dreamed of an extraordinary fiancé, someone worthy, someone heroic, not any rubbish!
Instead, she was now being handed to a man she could have picked off the street.
As CEO of Lancaster Group, known for her beauty and bright future, how could she marry such a man?
What would people think?
"No," she decided. "I'll stop this marriage, no matter the cost."
***
In the Great Hall, Abraham guided Alex to an honored seat.
"How is Master?"
"Still healthy after a hundred years," Alex replied.
"You’re young, successful, and humble. I’m fortunate to have a grandson-in-law like you. Sophia is a good person; please give her a chance to get to know you better."
Alex nodded politely, but he doubt the possibility.
Sophia didn’t look like she wanted the chance.
"Wonderful, wonderf—" Abraham laugh joyfully.
However, just then, an angry voice cut in.
"Are you insane?! Sophia cannot marry him!"
Lady Lancaster, Abraham's wife, angrily stormed into the Great Hall.
She was flanked by their two sons and two daughters-in-law, with Sophia trailing behind them.
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Alex looked at the little blue box in her hands as if he had never seen it before."A kind lady gave it to me," he said."A kind lady? Why?""For being good." He nodded hard, pleased with the answer. "She said I was very good.""Very good at what?""Standing still," he said proudly. "I'm the best at it."It was true. She could hear that it was true. And it sounded exactly like a child's lie.Then she closed the box. She did not ask again."Will you put it on me?" she said instead. "My hands are still stiff."She turned her back to him, careful of the bandage, and lifted her hair. His fingers fumbled at the clasp. Once. Twice. He dropped the end down the back of her collar."Alex, it's a clasp. It isn't a lock.""It's a tiny clasp," he said, keeping a straight face. "Clearly meant for a lady with dainty hands. My big paws are struggling here, so be patient with me while we work on our truce."She laughed before she could stop it. The clasp closed with a tiny click. The jade settled col
Chapter 827
Natasha Vale did not answer at once.She walked past Patricia as if she were a puddle and looked at the vase for exactly one breath."A market copy," she said. "A few dollars.""That's a lie!" Patricia cried. Then she remembered who she was talking to. "I mean... with respect, Ms. Vale, you've hardly looked at it."Natasha's eyes moved along the brown lines under the newspaper."Broken once already," she said. "And glued. Badly.""I did say somebody already did the puzzle," Alex said brightly.He wandered over to the old door and began to swing it like a bored child. In, and back. In, and back. The old latch clanked."It only goes this way," he told Gideon. "In. See? It's a silly door."Natasha watched it swing inward, away from the step."And that door never touched it," she said. "It opens into the room. Somebody stood outside and dropped this on the step."Every face in the yard turned to Patricia."You knocked," Serena said quietly. "You called my name. 'Serena, darling, are you t
Chapter 826
Patricia came back across the yard with the stick, thick as a broom handle and dark with old rain."Patricia," Gideon said. "What are you doing with that?""Helping," Patricia said."Put it down," Serena said quietly."Kneel, and I will.""No."Patricia's mouth went thin. She took the stick in both hands and swung it low and hard at the backs of Serena's legs, with all her weight behind it.Nobody was looking at the idiot.By the shards, Alex flicked a little stone without looking up, the way a man brushes off a fly.The stone hit Patricia's knuckles with a sharp little crack.Her hand jerked. The stick swept past Serena's legs by a finger's width and kept going, round and up, whistling.It smacked Patricia full in her own face.Thwack.For one second the yard was perfectly silent.Patricia swayed, a red stripe rising across her nose. Her lipstick had gone sideways."Oh!" Marissa put both hands over her mouth. "Not on the face, Patricia! You have to be seen!"Cordelia coughed into her
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Serena's thumb hovered over the screen.For a moment nobody in the yard spoke.Then Marissa found her voice, the way she always did when money was in the air."Well, I'm not paying it," she said. "Don't anybody look at me. Gideon, don't look at me either. Who pays if she doesn't? Not us. We don't have a million dollars. We don't have a million of anything.""We have a lot of curlers," Gideon said quietly."Gideon!""Sorry, dear."Patricia didn't laugh. She was watching Serena the way a cat watches a bird with a broken wing.Alex shuffled nearer the blue and white pieces, squatted on his heels, and turned one shard over with a finger."Is it a puzzle?" he asked.Everyone looked at him."Is it a puzzle?" he said again, hopefully. "I'm good at puzzles."Cordelia rolled her eyes to the grey sky. "Somebody take the idiot back to his kennel."The whole yard laughed. One of Marissa's curlers fell out and bounced on the stones."Look at him, Serena," Patricia sang. "Your husband. Your knight.
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Serena hit the cobbles back first.The stones bit through the white bandages under her blouse, and the pain went through her like a hot wire. Two nights ago, in Victor Russell's house, four lashes had split that back open. It had not healed.She did not cry out. She lay still in the pale light under the low grey sky, and breathed.All round the garage-wing doorstep, pieces of blue and white china glittered on the wet black stones. One curved piece still showed half a painted bird, its blue wing broken off at the shoulder."You take everything!" Patricia screamed down at her. "Everything! My position. My fame. And now my vase! This vase was given to me by Grandma. It's worth a million dollars. How dare you break it!"At the yard gate, Alex stood very still.The jewel box sat warm against his heart, inside his old brown jacket.Now there was grit in her hair."Patricia," Serena said, and pushed herself up on one elbow. "I never touched it.""Liar!""I only opened the door."It was the t
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Alex did not argue.He wandered along the glass instead, hands behind his back, and read every little price card, moving his lips."No touching unless you're buying," Gina said."I'm only reading! Is that wrong?" Alex said."It's wrong for you to even walk in here. Poor people have no right to set foot in this place.""Do you know how arrogant you are, judging people like that?" Alex asked mildly. "You're not rich yourself.""Maybe not. But I'm still much richer than you."Alex nodded to himself, as if that settled it, and turned for the door."That's right, sweetheart, off you go," Gina called after him. "This place isn't for you. Try the stalls on the fish quay. That's more your place.""Is that jacket meant to be vintage?" said one of the other shop girls. "So desperate to look rich."The shop laughed.Round the corner, out of sight of the windows, he took out his old phone."Natasha. Larkspur's, on the high street. Come. Hurry. Bring money. I want to buy something.""Yes, sir. I'm
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