Chapter 630

Brandon didn't catch Ivan's murmur as he drifted into the crowd.

He just shuffled into the masses on autopilot.

The calm hustle and bustle around him kept rolling, but the party was clearly not his scene.

His once racing heart had mellowed after a series of high-stakes gambles, and what was once anticipation had turned into a hopeless void.

"In this day and age, how can someone just lose touch with their family?"

"You and your kin never treated her right when she was alive. Now she's been gone for months, and not only can't you let her rest in peace, but you're also plastering her face everywhere and making a big fuss... She loved her quiet, low- key life, so why are you still dragging her through the mud even after she's gone?"

Harvey Ferber's retort and Ivan's accusations kept slashing at him, tearing into his already battered heart until it bled anew.

The distorted body in the morgue and the fleeting glimpse of a silhouette seen by chance haunted his mind, making his shaky convictions waver even more.

Sophia, his attempts to find her in another stranger would be nothing but another

of potentially harming

only to hear she had fallen into the river, without

later" as he left the house had become a

realize that the agony of never seeing her

dressed in an elegant apricot coat and scarf caught his eye through the window, and Brandon was suddenly reminded of the afternoon he learned she was leaving with Theresa. He rushed to the airport, and amidst the crowd, he looked up to see her crouching to fix Theresa's hair, gentle

time he saw her with

the first time he truly felt that she had

beautiful he wished time could have stood still, but it was cruelly

unknowingly come to a stop,

and with a standout presence, his dazed stance by the window

mall was bustling, and the passersby couldn't help but sneak peeks at Brandon, hesitant to

long, the area had become

buying a suitcase and instructing the clerk to deliver it to her room, Sophia hurried out of the shop, knowing Harvey

a flurry of activity. Just as Sophia stepped out, her phone rang - it

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