The Almighty Dominance

Sophia's brow knitted tightly, the haze lifting from her mind as clarity pierced through her confusion.

Her gaze sharpened, landing accusingly on Jack.

"You told me Alex shattered your hands and feet," she snapped, eyes burning like smoldering embers.

"Now you're saying The Thugs hit you? What's the truth, Jack?"

Florence sprang up, her voice shrill with urgency. "Sophia, it was Alex who attacked Jack first, then hired thugs to finish the job! Can't you see the truth?" "That's right!" Jack growled, desperation sharpening the edge of his voice. "Sophia, how can you doubt your own family-your mother and brother-for a nobody like Alex? He nearly killed us!"

Disgusted, Sophia spun on her heels, storming from the room, fury and doubt wrestling within her.

She moved swiftly to find Barco, her mother's trusted driver, but the moment their eyes met, Barco visibly paled, his feet scrambling to escape.

"Stop right there!" Sophia commanded, her voice a cold blade slicing through the air.

"I'm the head of Lancaster now. Take one more step and you're finished!"

Frozen in place, Barco reluctantly turned, sweat pooling on his forehead as he bowed stiffly.

"Miss Sophia," he stammered, avoiding her piercing stare.

"Why were you running?" Sophia's voice was dangerously soft, a quiet storm brewing beneath.

"I—I remembered an urgent errand," Barco muttered weakly, eyes pinned firmly to the ground.

"Enough lies," Sophia warned icily. "Tell me exactly what happened to my mother and Jack."

Barco's throat tightened visibly, his nerves fraying at the edges. He hesitated, struggling under the weight of the truth he had been warned never to reveal.

Finally, he croaked, "I can't say it outright. But there's a dashcam in the car—it recorded everything. See it yourself. Just please, don't tell your mother I gave it to you. Say you found it yourself."

"Fine," Sophia snapped impatiently. "Give it to me now."

Barco fumbled with shaking fingers, quickly transmitting the footage through his smartwatch.

Sophia received it, her pulse accelerating as she pressed play, a dark dread seizing her heart.

The video flickered to life, revealing Jack and Florence perfectly unharmed as they exited Alex's clinic.

But their expressions twisted into venomous rage as they confronted the hired thugs. Faint, angry voices rose from the footage.

"You worthless idiots!" Jack snarled viciously. "I paid you to take Alex down, and you couldn't even touch him! I'm not paying losers like you!"

"You better cough up the cash!" a thug spat back menacingly.

it ain't our fault your target

don't want to pay! If you want money, go back to Alex who

your fault useless bastard!" Florance

dare you refuse to pay after all we did? Guys, teach

retaliation unfolded on camera-blows landing, curses erupting, chaos exploding in

thundered painfully in her

bitter sting of betrayal surged,

she'd trusted them, believing the steadfast

sacrosanct, their intentions

here, brutally, indisputably, they

her, twisted her anger toward Alex, who

stormed back

force, glaring fiercely at

quivered, raw and

eyes wide with feigned innocence. "What

cracking under the

the dashcam footage. It was those thugs who beat

venom dripping

they couldn't handle him, they turned

her voice

because you didn't want to pay the thugs you hired, so they turned on you. Stop lying to

Jack fell silent.

you two so hell-bent on tearing us apart? What did

everything!" Florence

slowly, grief twisting through her

she demanded, her voice trembling with rage and sorrow. "Why

Florence shot

play by our rules, shouldn't we have taught

in disgust.

always known her mother's ruthless streak, but this malicious distortion of reality took her breath

vicious meddling that triggered this war, yet she spun

thrust her

"Fine, maybe we

isn't innocent either! If he hadn't set Clara up, do you think we would have confronted him in the

turned sharply, her eyes

can have the truth dragged out of them myself. Did Alex really frame you and send you to

the lie catching

narrowed her eyes,

I swear I'll drag every ugly truth