The Almighty Dominance

Chapter 374

Josephine stretched with a lazy yawn, arms high over her head.

"Good morning, Miss Sophia."

When she noticed Alex was awake, her face lit up. "And good morning to you, Alex."

"Morning, Josephine," Alex replied, unsure what else to say under Sophia's sharp, burning stare.

Josephine swung her legs off the bed, cracking her neck like nothing unusual had happened.

"I'll make breakfast for the three of us, okay?" She started toward the door as if it were any other day.

Sophia stepped in her path, eyes narrowing. "How can you two be sleeping together?"

Josephine met her gaze without a flicker of guilt. Growing up in the cramped orphanage, sharing a bed had never been a scandal.

"Oh, Alex fainted in front of the clinic, so I brought him to his bed," she said through another yawn.

"But then he got all teary and didn't want to let go. Maybe he needed a friend, so I stayed. I was tired too, so I fell asleep there. That's all."

With that, Josephine turned and headed off to make breakfast, leaving them alone in the room.

Sophia's eyes flicked between them-both fully clothed, nothing looking out of place.

She wanted to scold Alex, but Josephine's words pulled her up short.

Alex... fainted? And teary-eyed?

Could that have been because she had shot a bullet to his forehead yesterday?

"What are you doing here?" Alex asked from the bed.

Sophia moved to his side, her warm fingers brushing his forehead before she could think better of it.

"Did that little stunt I pulled yesterday-shooting the bullet to you-make you faint? Did it hurt so bad you almost died?"

Alex's eyes sharpened. This wasn't the Sophia he knew the one who lashed out first and thought later.

Concerned. It threw

“It's just... lately, there's been too much to deal

"You're

awkward silence stretched between them before Sophia

you

her face-beautiful,

her hands together tightly, panic

know I'm a widow now...

understood instantly where she was headed. In the past, he might have answered without

slowly weaving her way into his life, everything felt tangled and

give

shrilled. She glanced at the screen. "I need to take

away. "Mother? What

"Our neighbor just called-Our mansion

"What?"

roared in front of the

side, watching orange flames devour the

later, Florence and Jack pulled up in a taxi, still wearing their hospital patient

in panic as she lurched toward the burning mansion. "My money! My jewelry-my

want to die?" Sophia yanked her back hard, her

jewelry are still inside! I have to get

the fire's out of control! The money's probably

If you go in

her arms around her mother, holding her in place with

This is our home-our property! How can it be burning like

face as she stared at the inferno

order-forty guards to deal with Henny

like they'd

swallowed by flames, its walls groaning before collapsing

any luck, it would take Henny

the air, the ground shuddering beneath their

blew the Mansion apart, reducing it to a heap of smoking rubble, while a wave of black smoke and scorching heat

been the gas-or something just as deadly-going up

was raw and furious. "My mansion! Oh my