CHAPTER 79 [ Not Good At This ] ~SOPHIE~ I woke up warm. Which was weird because the last thing I remembered was being a quivering mess, unable to even move. My entire body had felt like ice, my limbs frozen, my voice stolen by exhaustion. And then… nothing. A black void. So not only had I lost
CHAPTER 80 [Last Minute Attempt ] ~SOPHIE~ It happened so fast. The expression on his face had been a mess of relief and urgency, which was probably what pushed him to rush towards me without a care in the word. The heavy thud of his body hitting the ground actually made me jump, shocked beyond
CHAPTER 81 [ Like A Teenager ] ~TRAVIS~ It started three days ago. The day after our weekend together, in the middle of a proposal meeting, my phone buzzed with a text message notification. I barely glanced at it at first, my focus trained on the presentation in front of me—until I saw her name
CHAPTER 82 [ Clipped Rejection ] ~ELAINE~ (4) I already knew what his answer would be before he even opened his mouth. I could see it in the way his fingers tapped against the table as if he were already dismissing me in his mind. Still, I waited. “No.” That was all he said. No hesitation, n
CHAPTER 83 [Hook, Line, and Sinker ] ~ELAINE~ (5) She has arrived. I watched through the window as Sophie stepped out of the taxi across the street. A slow smile crept onto my lips as I observed the way she hesitated, her gaze flicking from Travis' office building to the small cafe where I sat
CHAPTER 84 [ Need To Be Free ] ~SOPHIE~ I had been shocked before, shocked in a way that made my breath hitch or my hands tremble. But never like this. Never in a way that made my stomach knot so tightly I thought I would be sick. And I have also seen scars before, faded scratches on my own skin,
CHAPTER 85 [ Past Mistakes ] ~SOPHIE~ My father’s hand slipped from the wheelchair. He barely managed to keep himself from collapsing back into the mattress. “Sophie?” His brows knitted in confusion, concern flickering in his tired eyes. “What’s wrong? Are you hurt?” I ignored the worry in his
CHAPTER 86 [ Read Or Delivered ] ~TRAVIS~ I stared at my phone screen. The message was still there—unanswered. Three days had passed since I’d sent it, and there was nothing. No reply. I have constantly told myself it didn’t matter. I wasn’t the kind of man to sit around, waiting on a text mess
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—