“Mr. Cole, I forgive Lily. Let’s just forget about today, okay?”
“Digging up camera footage is too much trouble. Why would I lie to you?”
Ethan stood over me, towering with authority. “Lily Evans, regardless of what the cameras show, you still hurt someone. Apologize to Sophia.”
Watching him twist right and wrong, I felt my heart growing cold.
“Ethan Cole, do you really refuse to see the truth?”
“I know exactly what’s going on. Sophia is such a delicate girl—how could she possibly lie about this?
You, on the other hand, have never liked her. Pushing her is exactly the kind of thing you’d do.”
Looking at the man I’d loved for five years and married for three, I felt only disgust.
But for the sake of leaving quickly, I chose to compromise.
“I’m sorry.”
Only then did Ethan seem satisfied. He helped Sophia to her feet and walked her out.
I leaned against the coffee table for a long time until the wound on my forehead finally began to scab over.
Three hours later, my phone buzzed with a message: “Dear Mr. Cole, your Ocean-view Suite has been successfully reserved.”
At the same time, the company chat group announced the year-end bonuses.
Beside my name, a glaring zero appeared.