Divorcing the Heiress by Mistake

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, no whispered vows laced with love. Just ink on paper and a quiet room with a l

e as cold as the pen he handed me. "But th

t could I have said? I've loved you since the day I saw y

to be the Sophia who helped him, not the daughter of

rs. William

eight, and that weig

so very hollow. Staff moved around like shadows, trained never to ma

nected by marriage and separated

ret it. Every day,

d less, stubbornly refusing assistance

I had fallen for was still there-buried under cynic

?" he asked one morning, when I b

walk again," I said. "You're

ok. "People admire money, they admir

don't think he heard me-o

us said more than words ever could. Dinners

out my family, or my past, or why I looke

iting my father-still hooked to machines, sti

onfide in, and the man I was l

nts, moments that clung t

home late to find a plate of warm food covered neatly on the dining

ipped di

miley faces. But

ugh the glass doors as I sat outside sketc

pretending to adjust his cufflink. I said

the weight of my s

eviewing the reports for Williams Holdings-pa

owed at the numbers. "Your financial analy

smirking. "You thought I

ly. Then: "No. But I didn'

you...

ng close to a smile. "Don'

ing to flirting we'd

ght, someth

mp from a late shower. He had just finished a physiotherapy ses

ch other longer

mething?" he said

ith my hear

say yes to th

fr

e I lo

anted to pr

u drown in loneliness whi

id none

nces," I answered. "Even when pe

h on me, Sophia. I'm no

ispered, brushing past him. "The

e the confusion in

an intricate of business meetings,

wasn't

went out briefly. I found him in the ha

me," he admitted. "But now.

out thinking. "Then let me

n't pu

, the thunder raging outs

bound strangers. We were two broken pe

kept my

ll medical paperwork. And I prayed that when the day came-the day he learned

nce and space between us

he would ha

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