Chapter 107

Lawrence’s laughter echoed inside the room. The manic glint returned to Lawrence’s eyes, replacing the twisted amusement that had played there moments before. A cruel chuckle escaped his lips. “Kill your mother? Sofia, darling, where on earth did you get that idea?” He shook his head, the movement theatrical.

“Eunice, bless her heart, knew the truth all along. She knew about my past, about the darkness that stained our family history. She knew that I was her brother.”

Sofia blinked, unable to believe what she just heard.

What?

What did he just say?

Eunice knew about him?

“Then why?” she asked. What was the point of everything? If her mother knew about Lawrence then… why would he harm her?

“Because your mother is weak…” Lawrence shrugged. “I cannot be with a weak woman. Unfortunately, even love is not enough to change someone like that.”

Sofia pursed her lips. Lawrence’s revelation was something that she never expected. “You are lying…” she said. “My mother would never….”

Before she could finish her words, Lawrence suddenly took something out of his pockets. It was a black rectangular object; a recorder.

He played it and almost immediately, Eunice’s voice filled the room.

“I can’t do this…” Eunice said.

“What do you mean?” Lawrence’s voice responded.

“She is my mother. I know you and I are blood–related siblings and I love you but she… she is still my mother.”

There was silence for a few seconds before Lawrence let out a sigh. “I’m sorry if I put you through a difficult situation,” he said, his voice mellowed. “But Eulanda would probably not agree that you give your fortune to me. It’s impossible. She would rather die.”

“You are a Lockhart. You deserve everything that you will get once I die.”

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you not talk about dying?” Lawrence said, his voice lower.

response. “Sofia adores you. Please don’t let

from the harshness of this world?” he asked. He chuckled. “Eventually, she needed to know the truth or

her hate you, hate us?”

button, and the

lips

her inheritance which Eulanda would never allow. I mean… why wouldn’t she give me what was rightfully mine?” Lawrence

who raised you- killed my grandfather?” Sofia asked. This

said. “My father raised me… he treated me like his own. Yet that grandfather of yours wanted us away. I mean… the only good thing about it

spun around Sofia, the plush carpeting beneath her suddenly a precarious tightrope threatening to send her tumbling into oblivion. Lawrence’s words slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave, each revelation a crushing blow that knocked the

out the sound, the image

voice hoarse, barely a thread. “Why did you…” The question trailed off, choked by the storm of emotions churning

to fuel her

actions – the slow, insidious poisoning of

hope, sparked within her. “My grandmother wouldn’t have let

idly by. She would have fought,

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“Oh, she tried. But look at where she is now?” he conceded, his voice dripping with amusement. “Even the great Eulanda Lockhart couldn’t fight the

mean?” she stammered, a dread

satisfaction. “He knew the truth too. He and Eulanda have been business partners for so long… he knew about her schemes. He knew about your mother and me,

escaped Sofia’s lips, a humorless sound laced with disbelief. “Alexander? No.

her confidante, her rock,

Impossible,” she

Lawrence scoffed, his amusement morphing into something akin to pity. “He was probably using the information to his

the Lockhart fortune?”

known that you are naive but, can’t you

unease over her. Why would Alexander suddenly marry her?

one who approached her and offered the deal. He told her they had been engaged since they were younger and she

really possible that he

“Alexander Beaumont was working with Eulanda all along! Eulanda wanted you

that. Believing this man would

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was about to say another word, she heard

to hope sparked in her eyes. Could it

“Well, well,” he drawled, his voice dripping

a

of the room.

exactly as I say or you will

said. Sofia nodded.

the door,” he commanded, his voice a cold order. “And if you value

a word of

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