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CHAPTER 041 The Unexpected Encounter

Author: Royal Jay
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-19 23:59:16

—Sophia

The silence in the car was now different.

It wasn't the kind that rang out tense and ominous. It was. coarse. Dense. Like words hesitated to be uttered. Like facts hid behind superficial breathing shared.

I could catch glances from Ethan's mind towards me now and then but his mouth remained sealed. Not yet.

My fist clenched over that piece of crumpled paper in my pocket. That letter. Those words burnt into my skin as if they were branded with fire.

**Find out from Ethan what actually happened to your foster father.**

It kept me awake all night.

I hadn't informed him yet—just because I didn't want to, but because I feared so. What if it were true? What if I had barely scratched the surface about Ethan's past?

He took his car into underground penthouse parking and exited ahead of me and went directly to the elevator.

Same Ethan.

Cold. Blunt.

But I was no longer even that Sophia anymore.

I trailed him silently behind. Slammed metal doors locked and sealed us into the tight box
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