Chapter 48

Looking into James‘ eyes, Sophie knew it was futile to resist any longer. If she continued to challenge Jarnes, he might just have someone forcibly take her back home today.

Sophie took a deep breath,

She can bide his time, she thought, better to bow now than never

“I understand,” Sophie said. T’ll be home at least twice a week, is that okay?”

“Three times a week.”

“You!”

Sophie was about to erupt in anger, but upon seeing the look in James‘ eyes, she managed to restrain herself.

Studying for her Master’s at Eastwood College wasn’t too demandin, so visiting home three times a week was certainly manageable, and James must have confirmed it with the dean before making such a demand.

Sophie adjusted her attitude and offered James an extremely forced smile, “Three times it is then, Mr. Burke, any other requests?”

must come home, and I’ll have Lee

took another deep breath, continuing to smile. “No problem, anything else?”

“Not for now”

there could be more demands in the future.

After all, she couldn’t let Bea know she was

have business to attend to. I’ll have Lee take you

and as if he suddenly remembered something, he abruptly said to

James bring up Harold out of the

fainted. Could Harold and

with these thoughts, Sophie was dropped off at school by Colt. She had expected to

come on

out to Sophie, who was zoning out

she took a seat in the back row. She had intended to catch Harold’s attention and possibly get closer

Burke

have its advantages, but the downsides were

in this direction. Before she decided to prepare for graduate school, she had done quite a bit of research on this and knew what a typical day

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