Chapter 151

Sophia licked her dry lips and frowned. “Nicole, Sterling is still waiting for us upstairs. Let’s go.”

She turned around to look at Victor, saying, “Aunt Lucy keeps talking about you. If you have time, you should go visit her. Bye.”

“Bye.” Victor smiled and gave his business card to Nicole, who was looking at him with her eyes practically sparkling.

“If Ms. White needs me, you just have to say the word. I’m sure we’ll meet again soon.” Victor looked at Sophia, who seemed far from pleased, and gently responded to Nicole’s earlier question.

Nicole accepted the card with a smile. “Thank you, Mr. Hemingway.”

With that, she and Sophia went back into the hospital.

Once Victor had left too, Charles walked out of the shadows on the other end of the inpatient corridor. He looked in the direction Sophia had left, his gaze unreadable.

He had been here for a while now. In fact, he had been here while Sophia got into that fight with William as well.

This was not the only time he had seen something like that. Even in the past, Sophia’s interactions with William seemed to suggest that she had no romantic feelings for him. In that case, what was the deal with that scene he had witnessed two years ago?

Had he really misunderstood Sophia? Was there something else behind that incident? Or could it be that... just like her father, Sophia could casually flirt with someone while loving another?

Charles swallowed. It felt as though there was a water-soaked clump of cotton in his chest, weighing down on him and suffocating him. He pursed his lips and undid two of his buttons with some frustration, but the pressure in his chest did not ease up at all.

If he had truly misunderstood Sophia, then his actions over the past two years... Charles frowned slightly, his heart as dark as the night. Even the lights did nothing to brighten him up.

The other possibility was that the scene he had stumbled onto was the truth, nothing more to it.

However, that possibility did not make him feel any better either.

Charles clenched his dist slightly. Why did he care so much whether Sophia betrayed him or not? Was it because of the same reasons he thought earlier, that he could not stand any form of betrayal? Or was it because...

His throat tightened somewhat, and his heart beat a lot faster than it usually did. Was it just like what Sterling and his mother said? Because he liked her?

*

Sophia pushed open the room door. What she saw inside made her purse her lips, her gaze darkening...

Just like before, her brother was lying in bed, looking quite annoyed.

Meanwhile, her mother sat on Sophia’s bed, her eyes still somewhat red but a smile on her face. She was calmly chatting with Sophia’s father about something. It looked like they had made up.

Nicole entered the room behind Sophia. When she saw the scene in the room, her expression was slightly complicated as well.

“You’re back just in time. There’s something I want to talk to you about.” When Sophia walked in, James looked at her and adjusted his expression.

His tone was not friendly, but it was miles better than how he sounded before.

Instead of feeling glad, Sophia only felt even more repulsed. “Sorry, Mr. White, but I don’t want to hear it.”

With that, she sat on her bed and lay down with her back turned toward him.

James’s expression turned hard and he was about to tell her off, but then Jenny stopped him with a frown.

“Look at your son and your daughter! It’s because you spoiled them rotten that they’re so much trouble!” James said coldly, shaking her hand off his arm.

Nicole was a little surprised to hear that. Usually, her mother-in-law never went against anything her father-in-law said, and she never stopped him from doing anything either. It seemed like something had changed this time after their fight.

“Soph.” Jenny walked up to Sophia and said carefully, “I talked it over with your dad. After you’re discharged, you can come back to stay with us at home.”

Sophia closed her eyes and did not reply.

“Soph?” Jenny cautiously called her name again, moisture rising in her swollen eyes. “Are you...”

Nicole glanced at Sophia and frowned, interrupting Jenny. “Mom, Soph just went for two consecutive surgeries. She’s really tired. Why don’t we go home first and give her some time to rest?”

“Hmph!” James snorted again before Jenny could reply. “She won’t even respond to her elders! Look how spoiled she is! If she keeps playing dead like that, she can forget about ever coming home!”

Jenny grew anxious, her tears flowing down her face again. “James, h-h-how could you turn back on your word? We made a deal just now!”

Creak.

There was a noise from the bed, where Sophia had suddenly sat up. Her expression was stormy, her brow hard with fury.

“Soph, I’m glad you’re up.” Jenny watched her carefully and selected her words with care. “I talked it over with your dad. Once you’re discharged from the hospital, you can come back home.”

Sophia did not reply. She just gave an ambiguous scoff.

“Don’t take that attitude with us!” James could not help but bark at her loudly. “You stopped pretending to be asleep the moment you heard me say you can’t come home. Do you really think I don’t know what you’re thinking? You’re trying to play hard to get, aren’t you? Tsk! If you agree now, fine, I can forgive you and let you come home. If you...”

Sophia interrupted him with a cold laugh, “You can keep your fancy forgiveness, Mr. White. I don’t belong to your family, so I have no right to enter your home.”

At that, Jenny opened her mouth several times to say something, but she could not manage a single word. Her tears continued to flow like a torrent.

This was her daughter, her own flesh and blood. Just how deeply did her hatred for Jenny run?!

“You—” Sophia’s retort turned James red with anger.

Sophia had no patience to receive another lecture from him, so she interrupted him impatiently. “Don’t make yourself sound so holy and magnanimous! You suddenly changed your mind and want me back because you noticed that Mr. Harris is treating me differently now, right? You think I’ve become useful to you again, isn’t that right?”

“You— You’re unreasonable!” James was seen through completely, his face turning red and green in waves.

Jenny stared at him, her eyes wide. Her expression kept shifting, as though some secret was suddenly revealed to her.

“I advise you to give it up. There’s no way I’ll go home with you, and even if I do, there’s no way I’ll let you use me as you please again. I’m no longer that stupid.

“Also, Mr. Harris would never like me. To him, everything I do is wrong. In that case, would you still want me to go home with you?”

Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around!

Chapter 150 I'm Soph's Future Boyfriend Sophia spoke expressionlessly, calling out all of James’s wicked little thoughts. He pointed a finger at her, his face hard, while he kept his other hand pressed tight against his heart. He panted loudly, sweat streaming down his face, as though he could pass out at any moment.

This time, though, everyone ignored him. Even Jenny only gave him a complicated look, making no effort to help her.

Sophia tugged at her lips and said sarcastically, “You don’t have to try that on me. I can do that too, though with a different disease.”

“You... You insolent girl...” James panted heavily, his dark expression bright red now from the lack of breath. “Are you trying to... anger me to death?

How... cough cough... heartless can you be....”

Eventually, Jenny could not bring herself to just watch. She hastily took out his medication and put it by his mouth before turning to Sophia, saying, “Oh, Soph, did you have to go that far? What good will angering your father do? If your reputation as an unfilial daughter gets out, how will you ever find a husband?”