Can’t Win Me Back

Chapter 266

After nearly a week spent in the Investigative Bureau, Sophia finally walked out, heaving her tired body like a lump of sand. Without her makeup and skincare routine, she seemed to have aged an additional decade. Even her hair had more gray strands than before.

She avoided the crowd of reporters and decided not to go home first. Javier would probably pass out at the sight of her. So Betty accompanied her to a beauty parlor, where she could wash up, pluck away her gray hairs, and put on some makeup before going back.

“We’ll go see Liana first.” Sophia pluckedaway the hair around her lips as she spoke. “I have to check up on her. She’s my niece, after all. That way, your Dad’s image of me will maintain.”

She couldn’t have her carefully crafted

persona of twenty-five years crash just like that.

she pulled such a trick,Mom!”Betty cried. She hated Liana. Yet, she couldn’t help but feel upset by the memory of that bloody bathtub.”Whether or not Jasper takes the bait, she still could have killed herself

someone would have found herin time.” Sophia rolled her

Then, a look of understanding appeared on her face.”Does that mean … Did

herself so Jasper would marry her. It was this very trick she had used all those years ago that made Javier finally marry her. Without her schemes, she wouldn’t have made it

Jasper when he was depressed. Reliving his nightmare of yonder days would surely remind him of how much Liana

not be the best choice, but Istill can’t let Jasper have any chance of going back to that whore, Alyssa Taylor!”Sophia couldn’t help but snarl at the thought of her after all these days

yelled.”Solana City is stillour territory no matter what! We’ll

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motherly mask before going inside. She immediately burst into tears.”Lia! Oh, my poor girl. Why did you

Oh…”

a saintly image in front of both sides of the family.”Why must the

Liana playedalong with her as