CHAPTER 3: THE FALL OF SOPHIE
CHAPTER 3: THE FALL OF SOPHIE
Sophie arrived twenty minutes later, breathless and pale.
She rushed into the boardroom expecting control.
Instead, she found silence.
And Lucas sitting down like a man who had lost gravity.
“Tell me this is a joke,” she said.
No one answered.
Her eyes found me.
“You did this,” she hissed. “You planned all of it.”
I tilted my head slightly.
“No,” I said. “You helped reveal it.”
Her hand instinctively moved to her stomach.
For the first time, her confidence cracked.
Lucas didn’t even look at her.
That hurt her more than anything I could have said.
“I’m carrying your child,” she whispered.
Lucas laughed once.
But it was empty.
“And I just lost everything,” he replied.
The room didn’t move.
Didn’t breathe.
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Didn’t rescue them.
Because there was nothing left to rescue.
