Chapter 4

After saying this, Sophia clearly felt the air seem to freeze.

Robert's eyes filled with danger, "What did you say?"

His angry look always sent chills down people's spines.

Sophia nervously swallowed and mustered the courage to repeat, "I said, let's end this relationship!"

As her words fell, a porcelain cup was thrown out, landing right at her feet.

The slightly cool liquid splashed onto Sophia's foot, making her shiver uncontrollably.

Robert's gloomy voice rang out, "Sophia, I told you, unless you can bring Margaret back to life, otherwise, forget it!"

In the past, when Sophia heard this, she would immediately give up resisting; after all, no one could bring the dead back to life.

But today, Sophia showed Robert a bitter smile, "Fine, I hope you keep your word."

Sophia left.

Her figure was still thin, but for the first time, Robert felt a strange irritation in his heart.

He irritably pinched the bridge of his nose and refocused his attention on work.

Back in the office, the documents scattered on the floor had been picked up.

Sophia felt that others were looking at her with curiosity and scrutiny.

Fair enough, her behavior today seemed like she had become a different person to anyone watching.

She calmly sat at her desk, ignoring Samantha's murderous glare, and opened her computer to handle the work that had piled up all morning.

Before leaving work, Sophia received another call from Bianca.

Looking at the screen flashing with the words "Mom," her heart jumped to her throat.

Actually, for Sophia, in the matter of Margaret faking her death, the person who hurt her most wasn't Margaret, but her parents, who deliberately hid the truth and coldly watched Robert humiliate her!

Sophia had thought about it all day and didn't know how to face them.

However, avoiding it was useless—she wasn't the one who did anything wrong.

Thinking this, she took a deep breath and answered the call.

Bianca's furious voice came through, "Sophia, so you do know how to answer the phone?"

Sophia opened her mouth, and before she could say a word, tears fell first.

She raised her hand to wipe away the tears and asked in a forced calm tone, "What's the matter?"

Her seemingly indifferent attitude made Bianca even angrier.

She suppressed her anger and said coldly, "Come home right away, I need to talk to you."

Sophia pressed her lips together.

Actually, she could probably guess what Bianca wanted to tell her.

Nothing more than Margaret's matter.

She also needed to have a good talk with her parents.

Forty minutes later, Sophia pushed open the front door. The first thing she saw was Margaret lying on the living room sofa, looking at her phone.

She was wearing a silk nightgown, holding a big bucket of chips in her arms, with one foot casually resting on the coffee table, looking incredibly relaxed.

Sophia suddenly felt a bit heartbroken.

She had never been able to be so casual at home. Even if she relaxed slightly, Bianca would scold her for not being ladylike enough and making people laugh.

In this moment, she realized with complete clarity that she and Margaret were different.

Margaret was the daughter their parents truly loved, while she, Sophia, was nothing.

Just as she was feeling wronged, Bianca's displeased voice came from behind, "You come home and don't even know how to greet people? You're becoming more and more outrageous!"

Her father, Vincent Windsor, pulled Bianca's hand, putting on a gentle smile, "Your mom just has a tough exterior but a soft heart. Actually, she has your best interests at heart. Sophia, we called you back this time to explain about Margaret."

Sophia straightened up slightly, a hint of expectation showing in her eyes.

After coughing twice, Vincent said with a smile, "Actually, Margaret really did jump into the sea back then, but fortunately, she was saved by a kind person. She's been recovering, and now that her body has fully recovered, she's come back to find us. Isn't that a good thing?"

Sophia never expected that Vincent, whom she had always respected, would tell such a ridiculous lie.

Her eyes dimmed as she said with a bitter smile, "Is that so? But Dad, Margaret admitted herself that she was deliberately setting me up."

With the lie exposed, Vincent didn't feel embarrassed and continued to explain calmly, "She was just joking with you. Margaret, hurry up and apologize to Sophia."

Only then did Margaret sit up from the sofa and say perfunctorily, "Sorry!"

Joking?

Sophia felt a bit short of breath.

To cover for Margaret, Vincent could actually say something so illogical!

Did he take Sophia for a fool?

Seeing Sophia remain silent, Vincent assumed she accepted this explanation and turned to give Bianca a look, signaling her to continue.

Bianca still minded Sophia's attitude when she came in, and her tone wasn't friendly, "There's one more thing. Now that Margaret is back, you and Robert can break it off too."

Sophia was amused by the absurdity.

Although she also hoped to end that shameful relationship with Robert, hearing these words from Bianca's mouth was simply too ironic.

Back then, she clearly didn't want to!

Sophia bit her lip and said with a trembling voice, "Margaret clearly faked her death. Why did you..."

Why did they protect Margaret without limits and ignore Sophia?

The accusation wasn't finished before it was interrupted by Bianca's slap.

She always used a lot of force when slapping Sophia, and this time was no exception. Sophia was knocked directly to the ground.

"Who allowed you to call your sister by her name directly? No manners!"

Margaret put down her phone, linked arms with Bianca, and acted cute, "Mom, calm down. I guess she probably doesn't want to break up with Robert, that's why she's saying this! Since she likes Robert so much, I'll just have to give him up reluctantly!"

Her hypocritical appearance made Sophia want to vomit, and she actually did start dry heaving toward the floor.

Vincent sighed deeply, walked in front of Sophia, and tried to help her up, but she dodged him.

Bianca had originally felt a bit regretful about being too impulsive, but was angered again by Sophia's stubbornness, "Sophia, do you have any shame left? He was Margaret's boyfriend in the first place!"

Sophia's cheek was already swollen, and her lower abdomen also felt some dull pain, but she gritted her teeth and endured the pain, raising her voice to question, "When he made me drop out of school to keep me as his mistress, why didn't you stop him?"

Back then, Robert was like a madman, but her parents not only didn't stand up for her, they even privately advised Sophia to behave well and stabilize the relationship between the Windsor Family and the Howard Family.

This question was too sharp, completely tearing off the loving mask of these parents. Even the refined Vincent became furious and kicked Sophia hard in the waist.