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

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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.