Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 198

"Okay." William picked up a glass of margarita. Instead of sipping it like he used to, he raised his head and poured all of it into his stomach straight away.

The bartender left after getting a response.

"Don't drink so fast, you will get drunk easily," Sophia said.

William was holding an empty wine glass in his hand. When he heard what she said, he turned his head and looked at her. Lights lit up the depths of his eyes gradually.

"I don't have the energy to deal with a drunkard," Sophia continued.

The light in William's eyes vanished without a trace instantaneously. "Sophia, is your heart made of stone?"

"You should ask your sister what her heart is made of." Sophia took the wine glass and brought it to her mouth. She did not drink it in the end but placed it down again.

Crash!

William tossed the empty wine glass to the ground, then stood up, and said in agony, "You were charged with intentional homicide for trying to kill Leah. She didn't even sue you and had only sentenced you to two years in prison!"

"Do you know why? It’s because she treats you as her friend! She doesn’t want you to spend the rest of your life in prison and ruin your future!"

Sophia was so mad that she laughed. "Two years in prison... only?"

She was thrown into prison after Charles broke her leg. The inflammation on her leg and the inmates’ incessant bullying had her hovering between life and death several times.

She was not afraid of them at first and was even brave enough to challenge them. She figured that even though Charles had misunderstood her, her family would not, hence she was confident that her parents and brother would come and rescue her!

However, a month passed, then a year... Not one person had ever visited her. She finally gave up and grew fearful of the inmates’ constant bullying. She began joining other weak convicts and did what the tyrants told her to do.

From what William was saying, everything she experienced was all boiled down to “two years only”?!

"Am I wrong?" William looked at her with mixed expressions. Love, hatred, and detestation intermingling with each other. "If Leah sues you, then you can only spend the rest of your life in prison!”

Sophia took a sip from the wine glass. She remained silent, wearing a grim look on her face.

She did not even need to spend two years in prison at first. His sister was the one who imposed it on her! How could he have the audacity to question her?!

"I truly regret allowing Leah to approach you back then!" William gnashed his teeth and said, "I must be blind to have fallen in love with you back then that I have even let a kind person like Leah be friends with a gangster like you!"

"She wouldn't even need to suffer if it weren't for me! She should be a talented dancer, not stuck in a wheelchair all day like that!"

Crash!

Sophia hurled the unfinished margarita at William. He turned his head to evade it. The drink spilled all over him, whereas the glass crashed to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"Are you done?" Sophia looked at him coldly. "William Jones, how dare you put the blame on me? Did I ask you to pursue me? Did I ask you to send your sister to be my friend just because you want to pursue me?"

William wiped the wine on his clothes with a tissue, his expression changed unpredictably, looking like a broken palette.

"Stop playing the victim and make yourself look pitiable." Sophia said blankly, "You regret allowing your sister to be my friend and caused her to suffer; I regret being her friend, giving myself trouble for the rest of my life!"

William tossed the dirty tissues on the bar and glared at her furiously. "Can you speak with your conscience, Sophia White? You’re the one who has let Leah down, not the other way around!!! You are truly rotten to the core!"

"Besides, Charles was going to get engaged to me that night. I think it makes more sense to say that Leah likes Charles, hence she did not want to see us get engaged and framed me deliberately, no?”

It was precisely because it was too illogical that so many people guessed that Leah had framed her—even when Leah had planned the accident flawlessly.

William’s good-looking face was pale. He picked up the glass and poured the margarita into his mouth fiercely. Unsure whether he was actually refusing to buy it or if he was living in self-deception. "That’s impossible! Leah has always been well-behaved since she was a child. She will never lie to me!"

"Is there anything else?" Sophia sneered. She was in no mood to have a debate with him. She did not care whether he believed her or not. All she wanted was for him to stop pestering her in the future.

William dropped his eyes. His expression was terribly sullen but he did not make a sound.

"If there’s nothing else then I will leave now. Remember what you said," Sophia said indifferently and was ready to get up and leave.

William called out to her, "Wait up!"

"Anything else?" Sophia frowned. She found people who often beat around the bush an eyesore.

In the past, her attitude towards him was pretty good. She simply thought that he was an upright person who led an honest and clean life and did not have bad habits like others in the same circle. Right now, however… Hah!

"I can forget about the things you did to Leah back then." William stood up and walked over to her.

Sophia's stomach churned when she heard these words. She stifled the nauseating sensation in her stomach and asked, "And then what?"

"Did you follow Charles out of your own free will?" Without waiting for her to answer, William said at a pace that was slightly faster than normal, "If he forces you to stay with him, then I can help you leave!"