Sophie

She stared at the phone, her hands shaking. She had just informed Worthington that she was no longer part of Lucien Delano’s household. The Boss had unceremoniously dumped her in a small apartment close to the Club. Patrick as well, much to the little boy’s disappointment.

The rent on the apartment was to be paid by the Boss, she had been informed, and she suspected that it had been on Proserpina’s insistence. But Sophie seethed.

She hated Proserpina.

Yes, she had discovered that the matter of her mother being discharged had been a mistake; she had only been shifted to the wing where a lot of physiotherapy could be...