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Sandra grunted and left.
The lawyer added, “I’m Ms. Cruise’s lawyer, so you can contact me about
this case.”
He exchanged business cards with Pierce’s lawyer before following Sandra away.
Pierce’s lawyer glanced at the business card and was stunned.
“This is the best lawyer of the top law firm in our country. He has never lost in any lawsuits.”
Pierce stood there stiffly and instructed Devan.
“Go find out where the hell Sophia is.”
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He wanted to see her urgently.
He wondered if Sophia would hate him if she knew he was the one handling the aftermath for Emelia, the culprit who had hurt her.
Devan nodded.
Shortly after Pierce returned to the company, Emelia also arrived.
She tenderly made him coffee, yet he just glanced at it with gloomy eyes, and he didn’t drink it.
His preference for coffee had changed a long time ago, and he preferred the coffee Sophia made.
At this moment, his mind was full of Sophia.
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Emelia paled and looked at him cautiously.
“What’s wrong, Pierce? Are you not feeling well?”
Pierce’s face turned cold. “Do you know who you hit last night?”
Emelia pursed her lips and shook her head apprehensively.
Pierce’s brow twitched slightly.
“It was Sophia. Do you really not know that?”
Emelia stiffened, tears instantly falling down her face. She walked over to Pierce and took his hand, sobbing.
“Sophia? I really didn’t know. I didn’t mean to hit her. Is she alright? I’ll go apologize to her, okay?”
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Pierce drew back his hand, his face pale.
There was a hint of indifference and suspicion on his face.
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Emelia cried hysterically and hugged Pierce’s shoulders for fear of losing something.
“How could I have harmed her? Don’t you believe me? I’m a mother. I won’t lie.”
Pierce gave her a deep look, his eyes surly and powerful.
He said coldly, “I’ll look into this matter. If you did it on purpose, I’ll kill you to avenge my child’s death.”
Emelia stiffened slightly, and her face changed for a moment. She quickly wiped her tears and stood up, sobbing.
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“Don’t you believe me? I’ll go apologize to Ms. Cruise and beg her to forgive me. If she doesn’t forgive me, I’ll turn myself in and go to jail. Please take care of Luke.”
Pierce’s deep eyes were unreadable. His thin lips were pursed, and his expression was extremely indifferent.
“OK, I will arrange for you to go abroad after some time.”
Hearing this, Emelia froze and blanched, her eyes flashing with fear.
Pierce ignored her and left.
This thing was just too much of a coincidence. He was inevitably suspicious.
Pierce thought, “Whether Emelia did that intentionally or not, she can’t stay here any longer.
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“Things between me and Sophia shouldn’t have turned out this way
“I owe Sophia too much. When she gets better. I’ll bring her back, make it up to her, and treat her better.”
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Sophia didn’t know how long she had been in a coma.
When she woke up, she felt sore all over.
She slowly opened her eyes and was slightly stunned when she saw the scene around her.
Inside the room were luxury decorations, both familiar and unfamiliar limited–edition furniture, exquisite antique vases, and the customized crystal curtains she had bought abroad.
In an instant, hot tears welled up in Sophia’s eyes.
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This was the room she had been away from for a long time. This was the home she hadn’t been back to for three years.
As the Cruise family’s eldest daughter, Sophia had been groomed as an heir since she was a child.
“Ms. Cruise, you’re awake?”
Someone beside Sophia asked and immediately went out in surprise.
“Ms. Cruise is awake.”
Sophia suddenly recalled what had happened before she passed out. Thinking of the intense light and the sharp pain, she immediately touched her belly.
She could not sense the child anymore, and she realized that she had lost the child who had stayed briefly in her belly.
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Tears fell down her cheeks. She felt overwhelming distress.
Sophia thought, “Why did this happen to me?
“I have already given up on Pierce. Why did Emelia kill my baby?”
Sophia curled up and wept.
A moment later.
There was a knock on the door.
Sophia calmed down. “Come in.”
Brycen Cruise, Sophia’s father, walked in and sighed sadly as he saw her.
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Sophia had never been aggrieved before. However, after she insisted on marrying Pierce, she had been aggrieved and suffered for three years.
Now she was injured and had almost been killed.
Brycen was so anxious when he heard about Sophia’s accident, and he wanted to kill Pierce and Emelia.
Brycen went over and touched Sophia’s face.
He said softly, “Don’t be afraid. No one will dare to bully you in the future.”
Sophia couldn’t help hugging her father and crying hard.
“Dad, I was wrong…
As things stood, she couldn’t even end her marriage decently anymore.
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How could it be so easy to split up peacefully? Someone had to pay the price for this marriage.
Sophia had been devoted to Pierce for three years. However, she was humiliated and hurt, and she lost her child.
She had learned a painful lesson.
Brycen touched Sophia’s hair, feeling sorry for her.
“You can come back at any time. Let Kylan help you with the rest of the things. Your mom will be heartbroken when she returns and sees you like this.”
When Brycen received Sandra’s call, he was so scared that he almost went into cardiac arrest.
In Brycen’s mind, compared to Sophia’s life, it didn’t matter that she made
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The Cruise Group was on par with the Clement Group.
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Brycen thought, “What makes Pierce think he can get away with bullying Sophia?”
“I’m going to take revenge by myself. Dad, stay out of it.”
Brycen knew Sophia’s temper and nodded resignedly.
“Okay, I’ll listen to you.”
Anyway, he had made up his mind. He would get back at those who bullied Sophia.
Sophia pursed her lips. “Is mom still filming?”
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Cecilia Mooney, Sophia’s mother, was a famous actress who scooped up a lot of awards.
Cecilia entered showbiz at a very young age, and now in her forties, she was still very popular. She was constantly invited to act, and she shot a TV drama every year to kill time.
Cecilia was secretly married. No one knew that she had married Brycen, the chairman of the Cruise Group, and had given birth to Sophia. Cecilia’s private life was hidden well.
Brycen nodded and smiled, “She’s abroad for an event and can’t come back soon.”
Although Cecilia couldn’t come back, she frequently gave Sophia video
calls.
Brycen was afraid that Cecilia would disturb Sophia’s rest, so he didn’t tell Cecilia that Sophia had come home.
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He planned to wait until she got better.
Yet when Sandra heard that Sophia had woken up, she immediately went to the Cruise’s home.
Looking at Sophia’s weak and pale face, Sandra was indignant and furious.
“Your child died, but he didn’t even ask you about it, and that night, he bailed that woman out of the police station.
“I shouldn’t have slapped her. I should have hit her head with a brick.”
Sophia almost had no feelings for Pierce now.
She didn’t care who he was with.
It was only when she heard about her child that her heart ached.
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But what was the point of being sad?
Sandra felt guilty as she looked at Sophia’s haggard face.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were pregnant? If only I hadn’t taken you out. I’m sorry…”
Sophia paused, forcing a bitter smile. Her eyes turned wet.
“What’s it got to do with you? Emelia purposely harmed me. If she had failed this time, she would try again. You’re not the one to blame.”
Sophia’s gaze became complicated.
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The sorrow lingered in her mind. She would make Emelia pay for it.
Sandra took a deep breath.
“Videos and photos of the accident that night have spread, and everyone is cursing them on the Internet.
“Pierce is looking for you everywhere. I think he’s eager to solve it privately. Sophia, you can’t soften this time.”
Sophia’s eyes flashed. “Don’t worry. I’m not a lovestruck idiot anymore.”
She thought, “Pierce wants me to cooperate with him to clean up his mess like before, but sorry, I will only add fuel to the fire.”
Once Sandra was gone, Sophia pulled out her cell phone.
There were dozens of missed calls from Pierce, Devan, and the Clement’s home.
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Sophia looked at the trending topics online.
“A mistress broke up a wealthy family” and “A mistress ran over the wife of her lover“.
The videos were shot by the dash cams of the cars parked around the clubhouse.
They recorded the whole thing from when she waited there to when she was hit.
Many people left comments to show their indignation.
“How ruthless she is! I don’t believe it was unintentional.”
“That woman is the mother of Pierce’s illegitimate child, right? What an unscrupulous home–wrecker!”
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“Pierce is so foolish. Sophia is far better than this woman.”
“I feel so sad for Sophia. She did so much for Pierce, but in the end, he cheated on her. Men all love to cheat, right?”
“This woman should be arrested and sentenced for attempted murder.”
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Most people condemned Pierce and Emelia online.
The Clement Group’s stock price dropped to an all–time low.
Sophia thought, “This is a major incident in the history of the Clement Group. No wonder Pierce is anxious.
“Since even the Clement Group cannot control public opinion, the Cruise family must have intervened.
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“Although Dad promised to stay out of it, how can he possibly just stand by and watch?
“It’s good to let everyone see Emelia’s true colors.
“It’s easy to guide public opinion, isn’t it?
“Does Pierce think he’s the king on the Internet?”
Sophia sneered and turned off her cell phone.
But it wasn’t enough.
She had to recuperate and then gradually settle the score.
Other than Sandra and Brycen, no one else knew the true state of Sophia’s
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The servants only knew that she was weak after having a car accident, and they served her the best supplements to nourish her.
Half a month later.
Sophia almost recovered when the lawyer told her that Pierce refused to sign the divorce agreement.
She smiled, not surprised.
If he had signed it, the rumors would have been proved true.
Sophia changed her clothes and headed out the door. She was going to settle this matter once and for all.
Sophia sat in a cafe near the Clement Group building.
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She saw that someone had used red paint to write the shocking words “a life for a life” on the ground in front of the company entrance.
The cleaner was scrubbing the stains.
Sophia’s nose twitched. She seemed to know who had done this for her.
She thought, “My family will always back me up.”
Sophia clicked on Emelia’s phone number that she’d had someone find out, wrote a message, and sent it.
Within half an hour.
Pierce showed up, his cold face looking a little tired and upset. He came straight to the cafe.
Sophia knew that Pierce had spies everywhere.
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He stared at Sophia with deep, gloomy eyes for a few seconds, his voice hoarse, low, and cold.
“Where have you been?”
During this period of time, a sequence of trouble had plagued him.
However, he couldn’t find Sophia at all as if she had disappeared into thin
air.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the police took Emelia away several times for investigation.
Pierce’s lawyer was also busy.
He couldn’t handle this case which got trickier and trickier.
Sophia slowly lowered her head and took a sip of coffee, her face cold and indifferent.
“Have you signed the divorce papers? If you have time today, go through the formalities.”
She didn’t say a single unnecessary word.
Pierce looked deeply into her eyes, pursed his thin lips, and hesitated for
a moment.
“There are different ways of driving at home and abroad, and with poor vision at night, she might not have seen you…”
Sophia knew who Pierce was talking about.
She violently threw her coffee cup on the table and stood up, unable to hold back her anger.
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“You know that she caused me to have a miscarriage, don’t you? It was also your child. Am I supposed to forgive her?”
Pierce’s face was taut and rigid, and there was a complex look in his deep
eyes.
He paused. Enduring the dull ache in his chest, he softened his dry voice, which was still cold and hard.
“We’ll have another child, Sophia. I’ll send her away…”
For the first time, he felt helpless in the days she disappeared.
He had indeed been too cruel to her.
All this time, he seemed to have neglected too many of her feelings.
At night, he felt lonely and gloomy.
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But it was useless to regret.
Sophia couldn’t help tilting her head back and laughing, her chest heaving.
in anger.
She thought, “Sending Emelia away and keeping her somewhere else?
“That is his way of getting the best of both worlds?
“Does he think I should be grateful?
“How could I have expected anything from Pierce?
“I thought he’d be kind to his own child and feel sad for him..
“But I forgot that he always favored Emelia.”
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Sophia’s eyes turned grim, her face expressionless as she stared at Pierce. her voice cool.
“I forgot that you had your own child, so it doesn’t matter to you that my child died.”
Pierce trembled slightly, his heart aching.
No, it wasn’t like that.
He frowned, intending to explain something, but Sophia didn’t give him a chance.
“Sign the divorce papers, and I’ll let her off, or else I’ll let her know how it feels to lose her own child.”
Her voice was icy as hell. It was a blatant threat.
Sophia’s eyes turned grim, her face expressionless as she stared at Pierce. her voice cool.
“I forgot that you had your own child, so it doesn’t matter to you that my child died.”
Pierce trembled slightly, his heart aching
No, it wasn’t like that.
He frowned, intending to explain something, but Sophia didn’t give him
chance.
“Sign the divorce papers, and I’ll let her off, or else I’ll let her know how it feels to lose her own child.
Her voice was icy as hell. It was a blatant threat
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Pierce was shocked, gazing at her with surly eyes for a moment. His aura instantly turned cold.
But after he thought about it, his face and voice softened a bit.
“Sophia, I will make it up to you. Don’t hurt the innocent.”
His voice was deep and stern, and he didn’t notice that Sophia’s expression became even more mocking.
She thought, “Innocent?
“Am I not innocent?
“Emelia killed my child.
“So why can’t I kill her child?”
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Sophia didn’t believe that Emelia was innocent.
Meanwhile, Pierce’s phone rang abruptly.
He frowned slightly at the caller ID and immediately picked up the phone.
Emelia’s sobs came through.
“Pierce, Luke disappeared while I was not looking. What should I do?”
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Pierce instantly stared sullenly at Sophia before him.
His eyes were cold.
He soothed Emelia for a moment, hung up the phone, and looked at Sophia in silence.
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His voice was icy and dry.
“Did you do that?”
Sophia didn’t make a sound.
Pierce took her silence as a yes
His eyes became anxious.
“Where is he?”
He couldn’t believe Sophia had done such a thing
He thought. “How could she have hurt the innocent?”
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But he had to believe it.
Sophia tapped the divorce papers on the desk as if she were negotiating a deal.
She was confident that she would win.
Pierce watched her quietly for a minute.
His heart turned cold.
There was nothing Pierce could do.
His guilt couldn’t solve anything.
Sophia didn’t want his compensation.
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Pierce was afraid if he didn’t agree to a divorce, Sophia would do something stupid and even more extreme.
He paused and gradually regained his composure.
With complicated thoughts in his mind, he said with gloomy eyes, “Okay, I agree.”
He directly picked up a pen, signed the divorce agreement, and pushed it
over.
“So where’s Luke?”
Sophia dropped her eyes, took the agreement and her bag, and stood up.
“To avoid trouble, let’s go get the divorce decree first.”
