CHAPTER 304

Sophia’s POV

The silence in my office was deafening. My eyes were fixed on the stack of papers in front of me, but my mind was far away.

I remembered how I’d almost slapped Morgana in my anger. But luckily, I was able to control myself in the end. She just wasn’t worth it.

But more than that issue, something else was bothering me greatly. “Three days without hearing from Elijah,” I murmured. Three days of nothing but silence after that last message, just before they were about to raid the safe house where Henry and Julia were supposedly hiding.

My heart ached with worry, my thoughts spiraling into all the things that could have gone wrong. I shook my head, trying to clear the anxiety that clung to me like a second skin. This wasn’t the time to lose focus. I had a lot of work to catch up on.

Suddenly, the door to my office creaked open, and Trevis poked his head in. “Hey, you okay in here?”

I blinked, snapping out of my reverie. “Yeah, I’m fine,” I replied, trying to sound convincin