Thalia was caught between a rock and a hard place as she knew that Alexander would not let her off easily for giving Sophia an empty bank card.

All she wanted to do was push the blame on Sophia, claiming that the card had contained money, but the latter had spent all of it or that Sophia had forbidden her from returning the money.

Alas, Alexander refused to listen to Thalia's explanations, having ordered someone to send her a demand letter directly.

The amount was over ten million. If he truly intended to sue her, she would have to spend at least five years in prison for that sum.

Upon receiving the demand letter, Thalia began to panic. She tried to look for Alexander to apologize and beg for forgiveness, but she could not even get to Odyssey's entrance.

Left with no other alternative, she could only look for Sophia.

Even though Thalia knew her action would only aggravate Alexander's fury, she simply had no other choice, for she did not want to go to prison.

Sitting in the sports car, Sophia appeared to be an entirely different person from the meek woman in the past who only knew to go along with everything she said.

Thalia had previously acted high and mighty in front of Sophia, but at present, she dared not even openly rebuke her when she looked at the half-smile on the latter's face.

The expression Thalia had on was complicated, but the plea in her eyes was apparent. “Can we have a chat, Ms. Yarrow? I would like you to help me with something.”

Despite knowing Thalia for a long time, Sophia had never seen her behave in such a manner.

She let out a chuckle and said, “I'm meeting your brother. If there's anything, say it now.”

Thalia froze when she heard Sophia's words, and her face gradually turned pale.

People kept leaving the building, but Thalia remained silent even after a few seconds had passed. “I'm going to leave now if you don't speak,” Sophia commented with her eyebrows raised.

When Thalia noticed that the other woman was about to drive away, she started panicking and quickly exclaimed, “Wait!”

“Sophia, I know that I was immature in the past and made a lot of mistakes, but can you help me? I'm begging you. Please help me! Alex wants to sue me for swiping all the money on the card he gave you. The sum is more than eleven million! My life will be ruined if he does that!” she pleaded.

Sophia clicked her tongue softly before responding, “If you know that theft is against the law, why did you do it? Or did you presume that I won't pursue the matter since the card belongs to me?”

She was no saint. Although Thalia looked like she was about to cry, Sophia's heart would not soften, even if the other woman did end up shedding tears.

Thalia took the card herself, and according to the utterances she made when returning the card, Sophia would have become the one who took the eleven million if she had not told Alexander about it afterward.

While he certainly would not care about the money, her divorcing him without taking a single penny would seem like an act.

Sophia could not stand such slander.

“No, that's not it... I-I just... just lack money to spend!” Thalia stuttered.

That was not a lie, but at the same time, she was indeed confident that Sophia would not pursue the matter.

Sophia chuckled at her words. “If you came to me for this matter, Ms. Xenos, I can only say that you wasted your time. I've always been a vengeful person.”

At the end of her sentence, the smile on her face gradually became cold.

Sophia retracted her gaze, stepped on the accelerator, and slowly drove away.

Thalia was left standing there in a daze.

What am I going to do now? Go to prison?

Sophia originally left Sunshine Group early, but after being held up by Thalia for ten minutes, she encountered the evening rush hour by the time she left the place.

Due to the heavy traffic, she was stuck in the city center for nearly fifteen minutes. When she arrived at the location on the GPS, the sky was tinged crimson.

Sophia took out her phone, clicked on the real-time sharing option, and continued forward according to the route on the screen.

Alexander was already waiting underneath the red lamp at the courtyard's entrance.

As per usual, he was wearing a black suit. Under the glow of sunset, his expression looked somewhat cold from afar.

However, as she strode toward him, the iciness in his obsidian eyes melted away bit by bit.

Their meeting place was a private restaurant opened by Samuel's friend. The two were brought to a private room on the second floor as soon as they entered.

The restaurant was not in a remote location as it was merely twelve or thirteen minutes away from the city center. It was in an ordinary alley, and the owner had bought the properties on each side of the restaurant. They were all connected on the inside, forming a vast compound.

Having a meal there in the summer was truly relaxing.

A rockery with flowing water was visible outside the window. Even though the sun had set and the scenery was not as beautiful as it was during the day, the atmosphere was tranquil.

Alexander was brewing coffee when Sophia took her seat.

She looked at him and chuckled. “When did you learn to do this?”

“I didn't.”

He glanced at her and rinsed the cup before elaborating, “I saw you do it before and picked up from there.”

While he managed to brew the coffee, his imitation of Sophia's coffee brewing was unsatisfactory due to the significant difference in flavor.

Sophia took a sip but did not comment. “Thalia came to my workplace to look for me just now.”

Alexander frowned slightly. “Because of the card?” he inquired.

“Yes.”

He snorted coldly. “Ignore her. I've already told the lawyer to sue her.”

Hearing that, she raised her brows and commented, “She's your biological sister.”

All Alexander did was make a grunt of acknowledgment in response.

Even though Thalia was his biological sister, to him, she was just a person with the same last name.

From what Alexander revealed to her previously, Sophia guessed that he did not have a happy childhood since Kristen abandoned him to elope with her lover and became Zachary's paramour, giving birth to Thalia and Leonard.

Thus, it would be absurd for him to have any affection for his siblings.

“Oh,” was all she said, and she did not query further.

As it was a Friday, plenty of people came to have a meal there.

When the duo finished their dinner and were about to leave, they ran into Kayla and Casper.

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