Chapter 34
Outside, the night was deepening, and Colby sat at his desk, having just ended a call from the school office.
“What did they say?” Adler asked, leaning against the wall.
“She passed.”
Adler paused, “She passed? Really?”
Looking at Colby’s expression, Adler still couldn’t believe it, “You didn’t pull any strings with the school?”
“She got in on her own merit-it had nothing to do with me.”
“My G o d…” Adler was so shocked his jaw could have dropped, “That Sophie, she really is something. Didn’t her file say her major was in foreign languages, which has nothing to do with this?”
“Sophie is a linguistic prodigy, a woman who earned her master’s degree at seventeen. She’s no fool.”
From the first time Colby saw Sophie clinching that piece of land, he saw the determination in her eyes. Things were getting more
interesting.
The next day at noon, as Sophie teaned against the window reading a finance book, Marian knocked on the door, “Ma’am, the stylist and fashion designer are here. Would you like to see them now?”
“What’s going on?”
“Aren’t you attending your family’s dinner tonight?”
Sophie frowned. With everything going on these past few days, she had almost forgotten about tonight’s family dinner at her parent’s
house.
She rubbed her temples. If it weren’t for this being a monthly family dinner, she wouldn’t be eager to go.
“I understand. Let them in.”
ཅ ༈ ༀ ཝཿ ཏྱཾ ༀ རྞྞུ ཨཽ ཋ༴ ཌོâ ༈ ༩ ཉཎྜ 6 ཊ ཉཇ ླ ༈ ཌྷ ཉ — ཞ ཆ འ ༴༑ ཉ ༈ ཤ རྣལ དེ
Sophie set aside her book.
The Russell family was once a major clan, hence the tradition of hosting a family dinner every month. This dinner was mandatory for
anyone who still bore the Russell surname and was listed in the family genealogy.
“Where’s James?”
“Mr. James left early this morning. He must’ve had something urgent.”
Sophie took out her phone and called James.
James picked up quickly this time.
Sophie said, “Tonight is the Russell family dinner, and you…”
Before Sophie could finish, James interrupted, “I’m busy tonight.”
“Alright, I understand.” Sophie hung up.
Marian suggested, “Ma’am, perhaps you should talk to him again. This is the first time you’re returning to your family home since wedding. It might look bad if he doesn’t accompany you.”
Sophie knew well what she would face if James didn’t return with her. “It’s okay, I’m used to it.”
Even without James, she wasn’t afraid to face the Russell family’s busybodies.
As evening fell, Sophie’s car arrived at the main entrance of the Russell estate.
your
Most of the Russell family members had already gathered. As the gates opened, all eyes landed on Sophie who was dressed in an elegant teal gown.
“Look who it is, our dear Ms. Russel has returned,” Jessica always had a sharp tongue, “Why didn’t I see you with James? Did you two have a fight? I always told you, you should have married into our Fisher family. The Burkes really doesn’t value you enough.”