Chapter 6

Seeing this, I merely let out a cold laugh, my eyes filled with disdain. "If you're busy, go. Sophia's fingernail is a major event. I will stay here with Leo."

I assumed William would do as he always did—abandon me without hesitation to care for Sophia. After all, that was how it had been every single time in the past.

Because it had happened so often, I had grown accustomed to it; my heart was al