Chapter 57: SOFIA
Each step I took down the stairs was ladened with guilt.
How had it been that in the space of 5 hours, it felt like I had changed?
The girl who came to this place, where was she?
And who is this one who has somehow managed to get herself entangled with a ruthless CEO, had to save a man’s job and has charmed an innocent, kind fella into falling for her?
The last. That hurts the most.
Perhaps Alicia was right in saying that I’m my father’s daughter.
Perhaps it was Sofia Blake who crossed that revolving door, and now... Sofia Reed will be the one to exit that same
door.
The aftermath of the day has my reason for coming, a total waste of time. I wished I never came, perhaps I wasn’t even supposed to come. Maybe the delays and stumbling blocks I encountered on my way were trying to stop me from coming, because the universe knew. It knew I would regret ever stepping foot on that marble floor of the lobby.
For once in my life, it seemed like life actually cared. All I went through to get here wasn’t life being cruel, it was simply shielding me from this.
This ache in my heart at what I had done. This weight of what I’m to do. This scale of pros and cons that each side can never equal to the other.
I didn’t want to take Cole’s job, but I must because if not Harry would lose