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Chapter 6

Author: Reneemoon
So she'd known exactly what she was doing the whole time!

My nails dug into my palms.

"Doesn't bother me. The man you worked so hard to steal is one I'd already thrown away."

Sophia's face darkened. She advanced on me, the keys clenched in her fist.

"You were out there so torn up you could barely stand, and you still put on this act. Doesn't it get exhausting?

"I know you want to take your parents' urns with you. So how about you drop the high-and-mighty routine and beg me?"

She made as if to throw the keys out the window into the middle of the lake.

"Otherwise, your parents will be left here, abandoned forever."

I stared at her, my eyes burning.

Oblivious, she kept laughing so hard she shook.

"But you know all about being abandoned, don't you, Donna? First your parents, and now your husband. Ha ha ha..."

Crack!

One slap, and that shrill laugh of hers stopped.

Her eyes went wide. She stumbled and landed hard on the floor, staring at me in disbelief.

"Are you insane?!"

Before I could say anything, her eyes locked on something behind me.

A second later, she grabbed her stomach and curled in on herself.

"It's all my fault, Donna! Don't be angry...

"The baby... I'm begging you, leave my baby alone!"

A dark figure barreled past, slamming into my side.

Leonardo dropped down beside Sophia to shield her. When he looked up at me, his eyes were blazing.

"Julia, what are you doing? Are you trying to kill her?

"I told you she wasn't well. Why do you keep coming after her?!"

My arm was numb where he'd knocked into me. Holding it, I looked up at him.

Why had he blamed me without asking a single question?

Leonardo took a deep breath and picked Sophia up without another glance at me.

She rested against his chest and glanced at me through her tears, a flash of triumph in her eyes.

Then she dangled the keys from her fingers.

I moved before I could think, reaching to take them from her.

Before I could even touch her, Leonardo shoved me back.

I lost my balance and fell straight backward.

Crash!

My back slammed into the glass case, sending shards flying everywhere.

Both urns fell and shattered, scattering ashes and fragments across the floor.
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