"Graham, listen to me!" Sophia panicked, her words a jumbled mess. "I did this for our future! Your parents handed everything over to your sister, but what about us? What about James and me? Didn't you say you'd treat him like your own son? But we have nothing! How are we going to support him?"

"Shut up!" At that moment, Graham suddenly snapped out of his stupor. It had become clear that Sophia was always talking about how to support her son. What she didn't understand was that he was willing to treat James like his own son because he loved her, not because he owed her.

"Graham..." Sophia was in tears. "I know what I did was wrong, but I did it for our future. I hoped your parents would think highly of me, that we could get married smoothly, and that we—"

"That you could take over my family's assets in the future?"

"You—"

Graham roared, "Arya is my own sister! How could you do such a thing behind my back?!"

Sophia stood there, stunned. After a while, she screamed, "Graham! Are you spending your life with your sister or with me?"

had enough and finally slapped Sophia, venting all his regret

screamed and went wild, trying to scratch and claw him. They ended up in a brawl, with Graham's face bearing bloody

separating the two, then

police took away Sophia, he couldn't explain the emotions he was feeling. He felt as if his soul had been extracted, as if

time, the room

My dear friend, I've done what I came here for. The

appreciatively and got up to see

they left, Maisie looked at Graham weakly. She instinctively moved closer to Daniel, taking his arm and saying softly in his ear, "Let's go, I... I want to leave

and held her close

past Graham, the latter suddenly turned around and

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