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Derick’s words, one by one, cut into Virginia’s heart like a knife.
It was as if a long–hidden secret had been thoroughly exposed.
His pain was no less than anyone else’s.
But the betrayal and hurt he suffered made him wish he could let his suppressed emotions burst out of his body.
Virginia’s eyes were a shocking shade of red, tears welling up like a spring in her eyes.
Full of anticipation, but only left with disappointment.
The obsession in her heart was utterly devastated in an instant, leaving her in absolute despair.
She held her head in her hands, veins popping at her fingertips, gradually beginning to cry out loud.
Derick looked up, his eyes cold and restrained. He turned around and dragged the stiff Sophia out of the lounge.
Arrived at his office.
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He struggled to suppress the overwhelming bitterness within him as he looked at her.
“You were secretly communicating with them all along, planning to scheme against me, to leave me, weren’t you?”
He clearly already knew the answer.
At that time, I just wanted to hear her say it herself, to give me a straight answer.
Was the interaction these past few days all just an illusion?
Wasn’t his gentleness, indulgence, and pampering good enough?
Sophia was originally a bit nervous, but at this moment, she gradually calmed down.
She pursed her lips, wishing she could just end everything then and there.
“Yes.”
She admitted frankly.
Derick swallowed hard, his eyes somewhat swollen, his body
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tense to an extreme degree.
He had imagined himself in a situation where he was besieged on all sides.
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However, it was unexpected that this situation would be brought about by Sophia.
“Why, wasn’t I good enough for you? I risked my own life, wasn’t that good enough for you?”
Derick’s eyes were bloodshot, as if stained with drunkenness, nearly bursting with rage. He suppressed the trembling of his breath, his voice rough and unwilling.
- Sophia gritted her teeth, her eyes also turned red.
Until this moment, unveiling the warm illusion, she couldn’t be bothered to pretend anymore.
She pushed away his hand that was on her shoulder, feeling heavy–hearted.
Her eyes were cold and distant, her voice filled with helplessness and repression:
“Is this your way of treating me well? Locking me in the house, not allowing me to contact my family or return to my country, is
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this your idea of treating me well?”
Did you think it was good for me when you threatened me with my family?
Did you treat me like a fool and fob me off, thinking that was being good to me?
Derick, I appreciated you saving me, but I wouldn’t change myself to cater to your preferences, to become your possession, your figurine, just because you saved me.
“What value did my life have if I lived like that?”
She finished speaking in one breath, using up all her strength.
She did her best.
Tried my best to accept a new relationship.
But this budding relationship was nipped in the bud before it even had a chance to grow.
She couldn’t go on any longer.
Once emotions were tainted with impurities, they were no longer pure.
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“Did I also do wrong by keeping you by my side?”
“Did I do wrong by loving you?”
His voice was hoarse, yet it weighed as heavy as a thousand catties.
Sophia lowered her gaze, letting out a soft laugh. She bit her lower lip, then looked up at him:
“Derick, did you actually love me, or did you hate Pierce?”
From the very beginning in our country, you approached me, wasn’t it to deal with Pierce?
“Darion, you hated him, didn’t you?”
She watched him word by word, seeing his face stiffen, grow cold, and clenched her own fists.
Initially, Kylan had investigated the relationship between Derick and Pierce.
But she didn’t take it to heart.
From the moment she saw the two children, Luke and Joshua, appear here, she began to retrace the timeline of their acquaintance.
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If Derick was Darion, then the relationship between Darion and Pierce certainly wasn’t as good as Pierce thought it was.
During his time in the country, although Derick did not openly compete with the Clement Group for business, he secretly figured out the structure and development direction of the Clement Group.
So, was his time in his home country just for pursuing her?
Sophia wasn’t that naive.
She knew Derick was playing the next big game.
She didn’t want to burst it now.
Just wanted to remove myself from this chess game.
She stared at him steadily, her eyes a bit sour, and said sadly:
Also, I gave you the chance, allowed you to say everything, but what about you?
Did you fool me around like I was an idiot?
“Derick, we don’t even have a bit of trust between us, what future are we talking about?”
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The surging dark tide hidden in Derick’s eyes gradually extinguished.
The sharp and gloomy expression on Ling Li’s face gradually became calm and indifferent.
His thin lips were tightly pursed, turning pale, and his throat paused slightly.
A myriad of excuses, nowhere to begin.
What she said was all true.
At first, it was like this.
But gradually, he used his true heart.
Deception and lies, he had no choice, but it was a done deal.
She was not an ignorant canary.
She was intelligent and quick–witted, independent and adaptable. Before she opened her arms to others without reservation, she had to see their sincerity.
Derick looked at her cold yet soft features, the stabbing pain in his heart becoming increasingly clear, almost drowning him.
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Seeing him silent, Sophia took a deep breath and gradually calmed down.
“Just like that, your life–saving grace, I will repay in other ways, we are not suitable.”
At this point.
Surely it couldn’t continue to deceive oneself and others.
She also couldn’t continue to pretend to be a person who just took things lying down.
Sophia was about to leave here with a step.
She should have been free long ago.
Derick’s eyes darkened, his expression indifferent. He let out a light laugh, his voice cold:
“What you said didn’t count.”
His eyes were cold and sharp as he looked at her:
“Since it had already begun, then persist until the end, even if it was just acting.”
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How could he bear to let her go, the treasure he had obtained with such difficulty?
Sophia looked at him in shock.
He took out his phone; in front of her, and called his bodyguard- cum–driver, his voice cold and harsh:
“Take the lady back, and without my orders, she is not allowed to step out of the house!”
Sophia widened her eyes, looking at him:
“Derick, did it make sense for you to do this?”
“Yes, at least you wouldn’t leave me.”
Even if it was in a despicable way.
He no longer tested step by step, compromised step by step.
Since she was unwilling, we would wait until she was willing.
Someone came up quickly.
“Madam…”
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Sophia bit her lower lip, abruptly pushed the person in front of her, and ran out.
The driver was slightly startled, looking at Derick.
Derick slightly lifted his chin, his voice cold:
“Chase her, bring her back.”
“Yes.”
Even if the driver couldn’t catch up, there were still others.
Someone had told her long ago that many bodyguards were secretly surrounding Sophia.
More than she resembled.
She had just run out of the Woodward Group building.
Two people in black shirts and pants stood in front of me, respectful yet assertive.
“Please get in the car, madam.”
Sophia looked at the black Bentley that had already pulled up in front of her, feeling a chill in her heart.
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At this point.
The two sides, who had already fallen out, didn’t even need to maintain superficial politeness.
Derick’s affection was dominant and frightening.
Sophia glanced around, no one was paying attention to this place.
She bent over to get in the car.
The palm of the hand was tightly clenched into a fist, the whole body trembling.
The number of people in the manor had doubled.
It was absolutely impossible for her to go out.
Until late at night.
Derick didn’t come back either…
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