Her Life Starts to Spin out of Control

The phone soon rang again. "Satisfied with the proof? If you listen to me, I'll take good care of your father. Otherwise, I'll torture him every day, until he dies!"

"Okay, I promise!" Sophia made up her mind almost instantaneously.

"Good!"

"Wait, one more thing..." Sophia added hastily.

"Yes..."

"In order to ensure my father's safety, you must send me a video of him at least once a week! I need to see him alive."

"How greedy you are!"

"If you can't do that, then we don't have an agreement. I need confirmation every week that he is still alive." The voice on the other end went silent.

After a while, the voice responded. "Every month."

"Deal!" Sophia sighed in relief.

But after the phone call, she noticed that the video she had seen before had disappeared. There seemed to be a virus in her phone that erased the video and the phone number.

With inexplicable disappointment, Sophia stared at the the well-decorated balcony desperately. Her mind raced with thoughts.

She tried to think why anyone would take her father hostage to threaten her marriage.

'Which matters, my marriage or my family?' she tried to reconcile her thoughts.

Sophia sat on the bed, deep in thought, until it was dark outside. When she came out of her reverie, she reached out for her phone. She wanted to call Colin again, but her phone was off.

there was a knock on the door. Sophia hadn't switched on the lights, so it

She

Dinner's ready. Please come downstairs and have dinner." Sophia breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the

belly, she thought, she should have dinner to replenish

age as her dressed in a sports suit standing

After nodding

were two other maids downstairs, unpacking boxes. Noticing her, they stopped what they were doing and

addressed like this numerous times, she still wasn't used to it. "Good evening!"

Sophia so kind, the maids breathed a sigh of

and this is Bess. Mr. Li asked us to look after you. We are with Mr. Xie, the housekeeper. He

slightly. "You might be the same age as me. You don't need to

be living there anymore. Her title as Mrs. Li or Madam would be a distant

one another in bewilderment, because they had never met such a kind employer. Filling Sophia's bowl

mean to pull rank. She didn't want

After they promised to address her using her first name, they went on

had hired so many people. Was he afraid

took Justina aside and asked, "Did Mr. Li assign

Li said we should give you all you ask for but

a yard for her. Perhaps she could return to her idyllic life, grow some

thought she might as well go on

that was charging, and then sent Colin a message. 'I have something to

long time, Colin replied to her message, 'what is

what had happened in

have courage to hurt

her eyes tightly, she fought back tears. She had to do the right thing.