Chapter 12
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The moment Sophia saw Jason, hope flashed in her eyes. She dragged her battered body toward him, limping badly.
Tears were streaming down her face as her voice shook uncontrollably. “Jason, s–she was going to kill me! Victoria’s lost her mind! She can’t stand to see me happy!”
Jason pulled her into his arms, his eyes dark as he looked at Victoria. He could barely contain the fury in his voice. “What the hell is wrong with you?”
Victoria wiped the blood from her lips and sneered, carelessly tossing the steel pipe aside. The metallic clang echoed harshly through the empty warehouse.
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“Jason, you’d better think carefully about who was really in the wrong.” Her voice was hoarse but eerily calm.
She paused, her gaze sharp as a blade. “Don’t forget. You still owe me for today.”
Jason frowned, his tone ice–cold. “Weren’t you the one working with Wesley?”
“Ha!” Victoria let out a short laugh, cold glint flickering in her eyes. “Fine then. I’ll tell the media right now.
She stared directly into Jason’s eyes, saying each word carefully. “Let’s see if you can handle the backlash. If I remember correctly, the Reids are trying to acquire that property downtown, aren’t they?”
Then she turned to Sophia. “Ms. Page, you wouldn’t want tomorrow’s headlines calling you a homewrecker, would you?” Sophia’s face went white, her lips trembling as she immediately pressed herself weakly against Jason’s chest, sobbing. “Jason, Coleman must be angry because you two didn’t get to hold the wedding…
it’s all my fault… Ms.
Jason’s frown deepened as he looked at Victoria. “If that’s what this is about, I can make it up to you. Why Victoria scoffed, her eyes filled with contempt. “Save your energy.”
take it out on
Sophia?”
She slowly straightened up. Despite her injuries, her posture remained perfectly straight. “Do you think I need a wedding ceremony? Even formality, I’m still Mrs. Reid.”
Victoria stopped looking at them. Clutching her abdominal wound, she walked slowly toward the warehouse exit.
without that
As she passed Jason and Sophia, she paused briefly to say in a cold voice, “We’ll leave things here for today. Don’t worry, We have plenty of time ahead of us.”
With that, she left without looking back.
Jason stood there, watching her retreating figure. His heart was suddenly pierced by an unfamiliar emotion.
Victoria was disheveled, wounded by his own hand. She should have been furious, hysterical. Yet she had simply looked at him calmly, and somehow that made his chest tighten.
He suddenly realized he had never truly seen her clearly. Sophia was still sobbing softly in his arms, but he felt inexplicably irritated.
He instinctively raised his hand to wipe the tears from her face. But the moment his fingertips touched her skin, Victoria’s bloodied, mocking smile flashed through his mind.
His movement froze. A secret, unprecedented emotion began growing in his heart.
Had she become this way because of Sophia? Or had she become this way because of.., him?
The thought made Jason’s breath hitch.
