SOPHIA
I sat frozen.
The table was silent.
Beverly reached for her glass but missed it. Silas set his fork down.
Jace looked like he had stopped breathing.
“I’m sorry,” I said quietly, turning to Anita. “Can you repeat that?”
“You heard me,” she said. “You climbed into Davis’s bed and you want my son too? And also his bastard half-brother?”
“That’s a lie,” I said.
“Oh come on mum. Can’t we just have dinner in peace?” Jace snapped. “What proof do you even have?”
“Davis told me himself. The night of your engagement,” Anita said calmly. “Said Sophia used her mouth and her body to manipulate him. That she begged him for favors. That she would do anything to stay close to wealth.”
I didn’t move.
Not because I couldn’t but because I had nothing to say. She wanted to humiliate me and s
