Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 388

Sophia took a deep breath. “What about the people in the stairwell the other day?”

“I was the one who arranged it. Separating you and Mr. Harris, then sending you abroad was the least damaging option. Soph, I’m sorry that I broke your heart, but I couldn’t just let something happen to Jenna and Lennie.” The pain and bitterness in Nicole’s voice were genuine and undisguised.

Silence.

Although the heater in the car was on full blast, Sophia’s body felt frozen, and even her blood turned cold.

“Soph, I won’t mind if you blame me for everything, but can you please find a way to help Jenna and Lennie? After all, they’re still part of the White family,” Nicole continued.

Sophia wiped her sweaty palms on her skirt. “Where are you now?”

“I’m outside the White family manor now.” She was worried that something would happen to Jenna and Lennie, but now that Sterling had kicked her out, she could not enter the manor anymore.

Sophia frowned and mumbled a vague response. After she ended the call, she said to the bodyguard, “To the White family manor please.”

The car switched lanes at the intersection ahead and began driving toward the White family manor.

On the way, Sophia gave Sterling a call and explained the whole thing to him. “Ster, I’m sorry,” she added at the end.

She thought her brother would scold her harshly, but instead, he merely said, “Don’t think too much about it, how is this possibly your fault? Just wait for me, I’m on my way now!”

By the time she reached the manor, half an hour had passed.

As soon as Sophia got out of the car, she noticed Nicole seeking refuge in the lee of the wall. Her lips were frozen into a shade of blue-purple and her right sleeve looked particularly empty.

“I’m sorry.”

Sophia’s throat tightened as tears brimmed the edge of her eyes. She knelt down before Nicole and kept her head low.

She was the one who started all this, yet she still blamed her sister-in-law for everything, including putting Dad into a coma. Worst of all, her sister-in-law lost an arm too…

“Soph, get up now! I should be glad that you’re not angry at me, how can I possibly blame you?” Nicole wanted to get up and pull Sophia up, but after squatting down for such a long time, her legs were numb. Now that she only had one arm, she could barely muster enough energy to stand up herself.

Sophia shook her head and remained kneeling on the ground.

Screech——

An ear-piercing squeal broke through the air.

Sterling jumped out of his car and ran over. However, just as he got nearer to the two of them, he gradually slowed down. He did not know how to face Sophia and Nicole.

His sister had indirectly caused his wife to lose an arm, and both his children were in danger now; on the other hand, his wife indirectly caused his father to become a vegetable.

He no longer knew how to judge for himself who was right and who was wrong.

One was on her knees, one was crouched on the floor, and one remained standing.

The three of them remained like this for a very long time, and finally, Sterling came nearer and pulled both of them up from the ground.

“Let’s not blame anyone anymore! At the end of the day, the only person to be blamed is that wicked old witch, Sylvia Yates! If it weren’t for her, we wouldn’t be in this position right now!”

Nicole lowered her head and let out a sigh. “I just wanted to send Soph abroad and we could have been done with this, but I didn’t expect…”

“Let’s not get upset and dwell on apologies…” Before Sterling finished his sentence, he suddenly remembered something. His eyes reddened as he raised his voice at Nicole. “How could you keep something so important from me? How do you expect me to live with myself like this?”

Nicole looked at him with tears in her eyes. “Do you think I wanted to lose an arm? Sylvia warned me not to speak, how could I possibly dare to disobey her? Even if I did tell you, what could you have done?”

Her voice broke when she screamed the last part of her sentence.

However, Sylvia Yates was the one threatening her this time around.

“Don’t you remember that you’re injured? What are you doing here and not properly resting in the hospital? You’re a mother of two children, why aren’t you still capable of taking care of yourself?” Sterling could not be bothered by everything else as he rushed forward to check on Nicole’s wound anxiously.

The wound had opened under the strain and she had to return to the hospital to treat it.

Sterling immediately bent down to pick Nicole up in his arms before heading to his car. However, he paused suddenly after taking a few steps forward. He turned around to look back at the house as a vein popped up on his forehead.

“My wound is completely fine, there’s no need to go to the hospital! Let me down this instant!” Nicole screamed as she struggled in his arms. She could not stop worrying about their two children.

With her struggling so much, the wound opened even more. Blood began to stain the bandages and slowly dripped on Sterling’s clothes.

Sterling’s heart ached at the sight of it. He pressed on her arm and yelled, “Can you stop fidgeting around? You’re bleeding again, for f*ck’s sake! Look how much blood there is, are you trying to kill yourself now?!”

He turned to Sophia and said, “I’m bringing Nicole to the hospital now, I’ll leave my children to you!”

“Alright.”

She would die before she let anything happen to her niece and nephew. After all, the children were innocent in this entire event.

Sophia watched as Sterling drove away and she remained standing for a while before she finally took her phone out and dialed Sylvia’s number.

This time, Sylvia picked up. She answered the phone in a teasing tone, sounding like a mouse toying with a cat. “I told you would come to see me in the end, didn’t I?”

“I want to talk to you,” Sophia simply said.

Sylvia laughed gently. “You want to talk? Come and see me right now then.”