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Chapter 146

Author: Morgan Chase
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-05 23:10:57

Sophia's POV

The taxi took me home, but my mind remained stuck in that bank office, on the image of that photo, on the intimacy with which that woman had said 'Mickey'.

Every detail of the conversation replayed in my mind, every smile of hers, every look loaded with hidden meanings.

The key turned in the lock with a louder sound than normal, as if even the metal were grumbling along with me.

I pushed the door to our apartment in Manhattan open. Our apartment. The word sounded hollow now.

And the scene that awaited me was almost irritatingly domestic: Michael, on his knees on the living room rug, organizing a colorful pile of children's toys.

"Oh, Soph, you're back," he said, getting up with an easy smile that, on any other day, would have melted my bad mood.

He was holding a small teddy bear that belonged to Lizzie.

"Emma went to rest for a bit in the guest room. Lizzie wore her out."

I let my bag drop onto the sofa with a thud. "Hmm."

"There, all organized," he announced, coming towa
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