CHAPTER 24 [ Good Girl ] ~SOPHIE~ I had my night planned out. Celeste and I will get off work together for the first time. No, we won’t be going home. We’ll make a stop at one of those fancy restaurants where two plates of food cost half our paychecks. Dinner will be my treat but it won’t end
CHAPTER 25 [Meet My Girlfriend ] ~TRAVIS~ I can’t deny that I’ve been putting off something very important. I announced that I needed a wife but I’ve also turned down the numerous offers I’ve received. I knew my reasons for turning them down were mere excuses. I was still trying to avoid throwin
CHAPTER 26 [ His Whores ] ~SOPHIE~ Justin Wellington told me everything—what to wear, the occasion, and the role I had to play. He told me everything but left out the most important detail that I found out less than five seconds after meeting his family. Travis was also a guest at the dinner.
CHAPTER 27 [ To Be Travis’ Wife ] ~SOPHIE~ If Justin’s purpose for bringing me here was to irritate his father and disrupt the ‘important occasion’, he has succeeded at doing just that. To me, Justin was an Asshole. But it seemed like I wasn’t the only person who felt the same way about him. The
CHAPTER 28 [ Merely A Pawn] ~SOPHIE~ My ears could be playing tricks on me but surely, my eyes couldn’t be doing the same. Especially when I saw Elaine’s stepmother raise her hand to slap her across the face again. The sound of her palm meeting Elaine’s cheeks resounded through the hallway. It w
CHAPTER 29 [ Their Privacy ] ~SOPHIE~ I was the first person to scramble out of my seat to get to him. Travis’ body jerked uncontrollably on the floor. His eyes had already travelled all the way to the back of his head. It seemed like he was fighting for control over his own body but losing—painfu
CHAPTER 30 [Take it off, Sophie ] ~SOPHIE~ True to his words, Justin took the bed. He found me a flimsy blanket along with some pillows and practically chucked them at me. “If you snore, I’m throwing you out.” He threatened me before slumping on his soft looking and might I add, King-sized bed
CHAPTER 31 [ Take it off, Travis ] ~SOPHIE~ “Please…” That desperate plea was my undoing. I didn’t know why this was happening to him but what did it matter when he was squirming helplessly? “Okay, I’ll take it off for you.” I assured him, clasping his cheek with my free hand. He groaned, lean
CHAPTER 106 [A Rebound] ~SOPHIE~ I stared at my reflection in the mirror, tilting my head to the left, then the right. My dress fit like a second skin—black, sleeveless, simple but elegant. It wasn’t over-the-top, but it hugged me in all the right places. Still, I felt uncertain. “Do I look l
CHAPTER 106 [A Rebound] ~SOPHIE~ I stared at my reflection in the mirror, tilting my head to the left, then the right. My dress fit like a second skin—black, sleeveless, simple but elegant. It wasn’t over-the-top, but it hugged me in all the right places. Still, I felt uncertain. “Do I look like
CHAPTER 105 [Erasing Him] ~SOPHIE~ I’d made up my mind to erase Travis totally. In my thoughts, in my future and even in my memories if I could help it. I had decided, and now, I was beginning the painful process of erasing him. The first conversation I had that morning was with my father. I’d ti
CHAPTER 104 [ Another lost kid] ~ELAINE~ (8) I kept my gaze locked on the food, my hands gripping the edge of the blanket wrapped around me. My stomach twisted painfully, but the fear in my chest held my body in place. I didn't trust it. I didn’t trust him. He didn’t look like he was trying to
CHAPTER 103 [The Lesser Evil ] ~ELAINE~ (7) I curled up tighter on my bed, pulling the covers around my frail body even though I wasn’t cold. It wasn’t the temperature that made me tremble—it was the growling in my stomach and the pounding in my head. Hunger had a way of distorting everything, e
CHAPTER 102 [No String and a Billionaire’s Name] ~SEBASTIAN~ (3) The moment I stepped into the house, silence greeted me like a sneer to the face. No voices, no footsteps, no Sophie playing the dutiful daughter as I ordered her to do. Just silence and the faint creak of floorboards as I shut the
CHAPTER 101 ~TRAVIS~ I didn’t know what it was or what to call it exactly; that feeling that curled in my chest the moment Sophie looked at me like a stranger and walked away with an actual one. But whatever it was, it was familiar. I’d felt it before on the very night she ended things. That
CHAPTER 99 [You Heard The Lady ] ~SOPHIE~ The can of juice in my hand was already warm. I hadn’t taken more than two sips, but I tossed it into the nearest trash can like it had personally offended me. Coming here was a mistake—again. I shouldn’t have let my father’s excited words or Travis’ i
AUTHOR’S NOTE 📝 Hi, everyone. I know. I have done the unforgivable—leaving without a word and not updating for a long period of time. I sincerely apologize to everyone of you who has dedicated your time to reading my book. I didn’t intend to but I was in a terrible place last month—mentally—