Chapter 8
Alexander snapped back to attention, thinking they’d found Sophia, and quickly answered.
“Mr. Sterling, we tracked Mrs. Sterling’s phone location to somewhere in the neighborhood.”
Hearing this, Alexander paused, then had them send the location immediately.
Though he knew she couldn’t still be in the neighborhood, he wouldn’t miss any chance to find her, so Alexander reached the nearby location in under five minutes, yet found only a SIM card in the bushes. Since the trail had gone cold again, he returned home devastated and sat on the sofa with his heart full of anguish
Sophia had no friends here–he couldn’t imagine where she might go. This uncertainty Intensified his torment.
His phone suddenly rang
Without looking, Alexander answered and put it to his ear.
“Alex, my stomach hurts. Come keep me company, okay?”
Victoria’s voice didn’t improve his mood–if anything, it made things worse. He growled into the phone, “Your stomach hurts? Why don’t you just die from the pain.”
He hung up and irritably threw the phone aside.
Soon, the phone rang again like a death knell. Alexander knew this would be his mother calling to scold him.
When he didn’t answer, it kept ringing. Finally, he picked
- up.
Immediately, his mother’s furious voice erupted, “Alexander, what were you thinking today? Leaving in the middle of the wedding, abandoning all those guests and Victoria! You’ve completely humiliated the Sterling family! The Whitmores are very displeased with your behavior–go back and apologize to them immediately.”
Compared to his mother’s fury, Alexander could be called calm, but his voice was bone–cold. “If they’re displeased, they can get lost. After all the benefits they got from this marriage, do I need to grovel to them too?”
His mother’s angry breathing came through the phone. Alexander hung up immediately.
Looking down, he saw the ring on his finger–the one he’d exchanged with Victoria at the wedding, so he froze and quickly removed it, hurling it away. Then he frantically ran upstairs to retrieve the ring he’d placed in the nightstand that morning and carefully put it back on, which brought him a moment’s peace.
However, when he saw the ring Sophia had permanently discarded, his heart ached densely again, and he tremblingly picked it up, overwhelmed with regret for his past decisions. After all, he had once wanted to protect their love with all his might.
He had fought against it all, and every promise he’d made to her had been sincere. When had things changed?
It was when his mother persistently argued about family interests. He’d once dismissed these concerns entirely.
But after joining the company, he began caring about these things–company interests, family Interests.
When he accepted the arranged marriage, he thought it was just for family benefit, even that child was just to have a legitimate heir.
He’d wanted both the marriage alliance that could help his family and Sophia. His greed had created this situation.
If he’d stock tolds principles and refused the Whitmore alliance, he and Sophia wouldn’t have ended up like this.
They would have had a lovely child, and Sophia would wait for him to come home every evening. Now he’d destroyed everything And now it was too late for regrets.
Alexander slumped to the floor, holding his head in his hands in agony.
Suddenly remembering why he’d returned, he grabbed his phone to see online public opinion escalating
Few people knew about his marriage to Victoria–dus was clearly deliberate
Sophia must have seen it too. She, who had always been by his side, was now branded as a mistress because of him. How much pain must she feel?
Thinking of this, murderous intent flashed in Alexander’s eyes. He called his assistant. “Find out who was behind today’s leak.”
The assistant, startled by the coldness in his voice, quickly agreed.
After hanging up, Alexander stood and took a chain, stringing Sophia’s discarded ring and wearing it around his neck.
He would keep this ring safe for her until she returned to his side.
At 10 PM, the assistant called back. “Mr. Sterling, we found out–Miss Whitmore was behind those posts”
Hearing this, Alexander’s grip on the phone tightened, his eyes flashing with cold fury as he ground out. “So it was her.”
He’d repeatedly warned Victoria not to involve Sophia, saying their arrangement was purely business and she shouldn’t overthink it She’d seemed obedient all this time, but her compliance had been building up to this major betrayal.
After hanging up, he immediately called Victoria.
Victoria, thinking he was calling to comfort her, answered coquettishly, “Alex, our baby misses you and is kicking me. Come see him, okay?”
Alexander laughed coldly. A two–month fetus wasn’t even fully formed It couldn’t kick. And after she’d ignored his warnings and done such things, she still had the nerve to speak to him so casually.
“Didn’t I warn you not to involve Suphia? You completely ignored what I said and trashed her online?!”
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