Chapter 2

I laughed.

She had truly gotten better at acting one way in front of people and another behind their backs.

In the past, she acted like a good girl in front of my husband.

But behind his back, she relied on being his first love and tried to step all over me.

I endured it.

Later, she could easily “snatch” things from my hands, and my husband would still say I was being petty.

I tried to explain, but all I got in return was their blame.

Seeing that I did not reply for a long time, her voice on the other end of the phone took on a sobbing tone.

“Sophie, you’re angry, aren’t you?”

“I’m sorry, it’s all my fault, I just… I just wanted to be loved too much…”

As she spoke, she was already crying so hard that she could not speak.

Before I could react, my son’s shout came from the other end of the phone.

My husband had turned on speakerphone.

“Sophie Miller, that’s enough! It was just one social media post, so why are you always so narrow-minded?”

He called me by my full name.

He no longer called me Mom.

“You made Claire cry, so hurry up and apologize to her!”

My heart sank at once.

I clearly had not done anything, but now I needed to apologize to her.

I sneered and said, “Apologize? Why should I? What did I do wrong?”

My son said angrily on the other end.

“You’re asking what you did wrong? Making Claire unhappy means going against me!”

“I don’t care, apologize right now!”

My husband’s voice also came from the other end of the phone.

“Noah, don’t talk to Sophie like that, she’s your mother!”

Then he turned to the phone and said,

“Sophie, Noah is still young, so don’t take it seriously.”

“And we only came out to have some fun today, so don’t mind it.”

Listening to my husband’s words, my heart ached.

I said coldly,

“You don’t have to explain, because you are the real family anyway.”

Those words completely angered my husband.

The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly rose.

“Sophie, how can you say that?”

“Isn’t it just that we went to the theme park without you? Do you really have to make such a huge deal out of it?”

“If you want to go have fun, I’ll send you two hundred dollars and let you have all the fun you want!”

As he spoke, my phone showed a payment notification for two hundred dollars.

Two hundred dollars.

That was the price he put on my emotional value.

“Okay, I sent you the money, so this matter is over.”

After saying that, he hung up directly.

I gave a cold laugh.

I did not want family like this, or a marriage like this!

I opened my contacts and found a lawyer’s contact information.

“Attorney Lewis, help me draft a divorce agreement. I give up all property and only want freedom.”

I called Ethan Clark.

“Can I still join that project you mentioned before?”

Ethan Clark replied immediately on the other end of the phone, “Of course you can!”

“Sophie, you’re finally willing to join my team!”

“When can you come over? I’ll book your plane ticket.”

Without any hesitation, I replied,

“Tomorrow, the sooner the better.”

After hanging up, my heart was unusually calm.

Ethan Clark had invited me to join his team several times, but I had always refused because it was too far from home.

At that time, my life goal was to stay by my family’s side.

But now, I had let go!

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