Chapter 145 - Tricked by Sophia (2/2)

Sophia nodded before Finland could finish her question.

”I love him very much. It was very hard for him to forget about you, but he finally realized that a relationship with a commoner like you is too complicated.”

”But I ...” Finland bit her lip until she bled. ”But our child ...”

Sophia's face looked shocked, but she was able to quickly compose herself and hide her feelings behind a flat face.

”He knew since last year that you had a child, but he thought that the girl was your child with Jean. Seeing how you chose Jean over him so many times, he assumed that you're actually in love with Jean. That made him realize that it was time to move on and forget you.”

”If he knew I had a child... why did he never contact me?”

”You think Caspar doesn't know what was going on with you? He has unlimited access to anything. He didn't want to contact you because he deliberately wanted to forget you. You have no idea how much he suffered after you left him.”

Finland burst into tears hearing Sophia's cold words.

”No way... Caspar knew Jean and I are just friends. I've never slept with anyone else. This child of mine is his...”

Sophia pretended to look concerned and shook her head.

”You can't blame him. You always chose Jean over him... it's only reasonable that Caspar suspected that she's not his kid. Please don't make him suffer any more. Caspar struggled hard to forget about you for the past year...”

”I must hear this from him myself...” Finland insisted.

”You want to hear him say that he hates you and rejects this child directly? Go ahead...” Sophia handed her phone to Finland, signaling her to call Caspar, ”I was going to spare your feelings, but you're so stubborn.”

Finland bit her lip that was bleeding. She felt such chaos in her heart. She thought about Caspar's voice this afternoon on the phone which sounded as cold as ice. Her tears streamed down even harder.

Everything that happened was not as she expected.

Caspar was not happy when Finland contacted him. He had long known that Finland had a child, but instead of being happy, he thought that Finland had an affair with Jean and that Aleksis was Jean's child with her. Apparently, he also moved on and lived with Sophia now. So much had changed…

Finland felt very sad...

She picked up her phone and sobbed at Lauriel.

”Could... could you pick us up here...? I... I can't go back alone...” she whispered softly.

Sophia looked at Finland with a grimace. She then stretched out her hand.

”Please return his ring. His mother's ring.”

Finland tried really hard to hold back her tears. She didn't want to break down even more in front of Sophia. She removed the ring that was encrusted with blue diamonds from her fingers. Those blue diamonds reminded her of Caspar's blue eyes.

She took one last glance and handed the ring over to Sophia. She then wiped her tears and walked to the sofa in the lobby. She tried to keep herself composed as she waited for Lauriel to arrive.

Sophia accepted the ring with a faint smile then walked to the elevator and went up to Caspar's penthouse on the 40th floor.

Lauriel arrived 10 minutes later. Finland, who couldn't contain her sadness anymore, immediately burst into his arms. She sobbed bitterly at Lauriel's chest.

”Ssshh... did you two have a fight?” he asked softly while stroking Finland's hair.

Finland did not answer. She just cried and nodded.

Lauriel waited patiently for Finland to calm down. He did not care about people staring at them.

After a while Finland finally calmed down.

”Let's go back to our hotel, okay...” Lauriel said, taking Aleksis from Finland's hands. He placed his arm around her shoulders and took her out of the Continental Hotel.

”I want to go back to America...” Finland whispered in a hoarse voice. ”I no longer have a purpose here...”

”All right. We will go back to the hotel to get our luggage, then we go straight to the airport,” Lauriel said in a soft voice. ”Tomorrow we will already be in San Francisco.”

Finland nodded. She rubbed her bleeding lip and held back the tears that were about to flow.

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From the Author:

Sophia is really cunning/smart/evil, taking advantage of an obvious misunderstanding between Caspar and Finland...

Now, miscommunication added with evil third party can cause sooo much pain.

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