LOGINSophia froze the moment she heard Fiona's voice from the other side of the door. For several seconds, nobody moved. Nathan immediately stepped in front of Sophia, while Damien's expression hardened. His eyes remained fixed on the door as another soft knock echoed through the apartment. “Sophia, I know you're in there,” Fiona called again. Her voice sounded calm, almost too calm. “Please open the door. I need to talk to you.” Sophia stared at Damien. “Why is she here?” Damien didn't answer immediately. He moved toward the door, but Nathan caught his arm. “Sir, let me check first.” Damien glanced at him, then nodded. Nathan moved quietly toward the door and looked through the peephole. After a moment, he stepped back. “She is alone.” Sophia's heart was still pounding, “Are you sure?” “Yes.” Damien looked at her. “You don't have to speak to her if you don't want to." Sophia shook her head. “No. I want to know why she is here.” Damien studied her face. “Then I'll stay with
Sophia stared at her phone long after the call ended. “Damien?” she called slowly. She heard nothing and she immediately called again. Still, she heard nothing reply. Her heart began pounding. A part of her knew something had happened. Damien had never ended a conversation like that. Even when he was angry, he always had something to say. Sophia looked down at the necklace lying on the floor. Her mother's necklace and the note was still beside it. She bent down and picked both of them up. Her fingers were shaking. “This can't be true.” She said the words aloud, almost as if saying them would make them disappear. Her mother had died years ago. Sophia remembered the funeral. She remembered standing beside her father, holding his hand because she was too young to understand why everyone was crying. She remembered the coffin. She remembered her father's face. She remembered him telling her that her mother would always be watching over her. Everything she remembered sudde
Sophia stared at the screen in disbelief. Fiona. There was no mistake. The woman in the footage was Fiona. She was wearing dark sunglasses and a black coat, but Sophia knew her face too well. She had seen it only a few days ago when she had walked into Damien's bedroom and found her with him. Her stomach twisted. “She was at the hospital,” Sophia whispered. Damien didn't respond. His eyes remained fixed on the footage. Nathan replayed the video. This time, he paused it when Fiona turned toward the camera. “She knew exactly where the camera was,” Nathan said. Damien's expression hardened. “What do you mean?” “She turned away from it at first, then deliberately looked toward it.” Sophia folded her arms tightly across her chest. “So she knew she was being recorded?” “Maybe,” Nathan said. Sophia looked at Damien. “Ask her.” Damien finally looked at her. “I will.” “No.” Sophia shook her head. “Call her now.” Damien hesitated. “Why are you hesitating?” “I need to understan
Nathan arrived at Sophia's apartment less than twenty minutes later.He barely waited for the door to open before stepping inside.Sophia looked at him with confusion. “What happened?”Nathan glanced around the apartment before looking back at her. “Where is Serena?”“She went to the hospital to check on my sister. Why?”Nathan pulled out his phone. “Mr. Cole asked me to come here.”Sophia folded her arms. “Why?”“He received another message.”Her expression immediately changed. “About me?”Nathan nodded.Sophia's heart sank. “What did it say?”Nathan hesitated. He was not sure if telling her was a good idea but he did promise not to hold back anything from her. “Tell me.”“It said someone is trying to stop the wedding.”Sophia stared at him. “That isn't exactly surprising.”“It also said the person had already gotten close to you.”She went quiet.Nathan watched her carefully. “Has anyone strange approached you recently?”Sophia thought about it.“No.”“Think carefully.”“I am think
The next morning, Sophia woke up to the sound of her phone vibrating repeatedly on the bedside table.She reached for it without opening her eyes, expecting Serena to be calling her. Instead, she found several missed calls from an unknown number and dozens of messages from different people.Sophia frowned as she unlocked her phone. The first message made her sit upright.“Is it true?”Another one followed.“Congratulations, Sophia!”Then another.“Girl, when were you going to tell us you were marrying Damien Cole?”Sophia stared at the screen, completely confused.“What?”She quickly opened her social media account. Her heart nearly stopped.The headline was everywhere.BILLIONAIRE DAMIEN COLE TO MARRY MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN PRIVATE CEREMONY.Another headline appeared beneath it.COLE FAMILY HEIR FINALLY SET TO TIE THE KNOT.Sophia's eyes widened as she clicked on the article.There was a photograph of Damien leaving Cole Enterprises the previous evening.The article claimed that the wom
Damien drove through the gates of the Cole mansion with his hands firmly gripping the steering wheel. His grandfather's last words kept repeating in his head.She's in more danger than you realize.He had heard his grandfather speak about enemies, business rivals and threats countless times, but there had been something different in his voice tonight.Fear.Damien stepped out of the car and walked into the mansion without waiting for anyone to greet him. His grandfather was already in the study, standing beside the large desk with an old brown envelope in his hand.“You came alone?” his grandfather asked.“Yes.”“Where is Sophia?”“At my apartment.”His grandfather's expression changed. “You left her alone?”“She has security.” Damien replied.“That isn't what I asked.” the old man said, squeezing his brows. Damien frowned. “What is going on?”His grandfather held out the envelope. “Close the door.”Damien did as he was told, then turned back toward him. “What did you find?”His gran







