Chapter 1455

Colby led Sophie to a room tucked away at the back on the left side. As the door swung open, he instinctively shielded Sophie from the dust clinging to the doorway.

It took Sophie a moment to fully absorb the room's appearance. It was a cramped space, barely 100 square feet, with three bunk beds whose metal frames were badly rusted. The room was bare, save for a simple stand holding a copper basin. Colby's description of the place as 'modest' was definitely putting it mildly.

"There's nothing worth seeing here; it's filthy. Let's head out," Colby murmured, gently pulling on Sophie's arm. But instead of leaving, she grew curious and asked, "Which bed is yours?"

"Right there," Colby pointed to the bottom bunk in the corner.

"So, you share this room with Griffin and Odie?" she inquired.

"Yeah," he nodded.

"What about the other three beds?" she pressed.

so it's just the three of us here,"

your job with the White family, it's

"That's right," Colby replied.

Colby used to sleep. The bed was still neat, but the whole

summer, it was suffocating; in the winter, it was

and his friends had called this

the slums, this

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thoughts. He stepped closer, took her hand, and

her forehead gently. "Let's go. You'll start feeling

Sophie lowered her gaze.

she suddenly said, "Colby, I sometimes wonder, if we could start all over again, maybe you wouldn't have had to go through all that hardship, and we'd all be happy." Colby squeezed

help but question if she was being unreasonable. Ever since that beautiful dream, she often found herself wishing for a world where

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