Chapter 636: The Day She Tried to Leave and Learned She Couldn't
Sophia kept quiet. Her gaze darted to the man who was sitting too comfortably on the bed, half-naked too.
"What exactly were you doing?" her mother demanded.
"Nothing!" Sophia said quickly, panic beginning to creep into her voice. "I ran into him, that's all. I didn't—he was the one who..."
"Enough."
The word was sharp enough to silence her immediately... again.
Her mother's gaze hardened.
"You expect me to believe that?" she asked, her voice lowering into something far more dangerous. "That you just happened to 'run into him'?"
Sophia nodded quickly because that was the truth.
"Yes," she said. "That was all. He held onto me bu—"
"Now, young one, why would you lie against me like that? I wasn't the one who held onto you—you held onto me, your arms wrapped around my waist," the man said, interrupting Sophia.
