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.

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 if no one

would have found herin time.” Sophia

understanding appeared on her

was this very trick she had used all those years ago that

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

chance of going back to that whore, Alyssa Taylor!”Sophia couldn’t help but snarl at the thought of her after all these days spent suffering in the Bureau. “I

City is stillour territory no matter what! We’ll get our revenge

…

on a sad, motherly mask before

Oh…”

approached Liana, embracing her and projecting a saintly image in front of both sides of the family.”Why must the women in

Liana playedalong