Pursuing Her (Sophie and Tristan)

Chapter 66 Not Going To Do Anything

wait, Dad! I’m going to prove you wrong.”Willow clenched her fists when she overheard the conversation. Why did Sophie have to return? Why did she have to take everything away from me?When Yale entered the living room, Willow followed.“I’ll always support you, Dad. To me, you’re the best there is.” Willow then hugged her father.“You’re the only one who trusts me unconditionally, Willow,” stated Yale as he gently touched his daughter’s cheek.“Don’t be sad, Dad. Sophie won’t get her way because Mason’s coming back from overseas soon. He can help you.”“Good girl. You have to win Mason’s heart. With the Lairds’ help, there’s no way Sophie can take Tanner Group from me.”“Got it!” Willow was confident that she could handle Mason.At two-twenty, Sophie bumped into Willow just when she was about to leave Wisteria Apartments for school. Damn it! She doesn’t know when to give up, does she?“What were you thinking, Sophie? How can you treat Dad that way?” rebuked Willow the second she saw Sophie.“Get out of my way.” Sophie would rather not waste her time talking to the woman.“I’m your sister, Sophie.”“I don’t have a sister,” uttered Sophie before bumping Willow’s shoulder to walk past the woman. “One more thing. Stop stalking me because it’s disgusting.”“How dare you!” Willow immediately stepped forward to grab Sophie by the hair.“D*mn it!” Sophie shut her eyes and tried to control her emotions but to no avail.With a swift turn, Sophie grasped and twisted Willow’s wrist.The poor woman was in so much pain that she immediately ordered, “Let go of me! What are you doing?” Her eyes were already red, ready to send tears rolling down her cheeks.“Do you not understand what I just said to you?”When the driver saw what the two were doing, he hurriedly got out of the car. “What are you doing? Let go of Ms. Willow now!” demanded the driver while grabbing Sophie’s hand.In response to that, Sophie furrowed her eyebrows. “This doesn’t concern you. Get lost.”“What do you think you’re doing, Ms. Sophie? Ms. Willow’s hands are precious! They cannot be injured!”The driver thought he could overpower Sophie just because he was bigger in size. However, he realized he could not move when the young woman grabbed him by the hand as well.“Why? Just because she knows how to use a brush? What she painted was trash anyway, so I might as well save her trouble,” mocked Sophie.“You little…” At that point, Willow wanted nothing more than to rip off Sophie’s lips. How dare she say that about my paintings! I’ve won awards for my talent!“You’re probably just jealous of me, aren’t you, Sophie? You’re jealous that I get to be with Mason while you—”“Jealous of you? You have absolutely nothing that I want.” Sophie applied more pressure on Willow’s wrist, and immediately, the woman fell to the ground. “You’d better stay away from me, or I’ll be more than glad to break that hand of yours.”The driver hurried over to help Willow up. “Are you okay, Ms. Willow?”“I’m fine, but you can tell my father what just happened.”“I understand.”Sophie stepped into her classroom just as the bell was still ringing.Ysabelle wanted to walk over to speak with Sophie, but unfortunately, their physics teacher had arrived.“Students, we have a physics competition next semester. Does anybody care to participate?”The students exchanged looks, but none raised their hands to volunteer.“What about you, Sophie?”When Sophie regained her senses, Aaron was already staring intently at her.“Mr. Elswick, I’ll be sitting for the university entrance exam next June, so I’d like to concentrate on preparing for that.”The entire classroom fell dead silent after everyone heard Sophie’s ridiculous excuse, for they all knew that she did anything but pay attention in class every day.Her classmates were convinced that the university entrance exam was nothing more than a joke to her.“Sophie, I’m sure you’ll find the competition this time around very interesting because Bailey will be participating too. You can learn a lot from each other.”“But I—”“Before you turn me down, just hear me out, okay? Come to my office after class, and we’ll talk.”Seeing how excited Aaron was, Sophie had no idea how to reject her teacher.After class, the young woman received information from Lionel informing her that she would be in charge of Transfix Cosmetics, a makeup brand under Tanner Group.The brand used to rake in the most profit, but after an unfortunate incident, it got boycotted by the public.The incident, where a university student