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“Sophia!”Carl rushed forward the moment he saw her.Relief crashed through him like a wave after hours of suffocating worry. He closed the distance between them in seconds, reaching out as if to pull her into his arms—But before he could touch her—Smack!The sharp sound echoed across the bar.Carl staggered back slightly, stunned.He stared at Sophia in confusion, his cheek still burning from the slap.“Why did you slap me?” he asked, genuinely bewildered. “Are you still mad at me?”Sophia’s fists trembled at her sides. Tears gathered in her eyes as she looked at him. For a second, Carl thought she might slap him again.Instead—She suddenly threw herself into his arms.“What took you so long?!” she cried, clutching him tightly. “I was so scared!”Carl blinked in surprise, but his expression softened immediately.He gently patted her back, holding her close.“I’m sorry,” he murmured. “I’m here now.”His voice turned serious.“Tell me… what did they do to you?”Sophia sniffled and s
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Carl didn’t speak right away.He stared at the man in front of him, studying every line of his face, every movement of his eyes.In his entire life, this was the first time he had met someone who knew something about the necklace he carried.All these years, that small piece of metal had been nothing more than a mystery to him. A question he could never answer.Sometimes he wondered if it was connected to his past.Sometimes he wondered if it was the only clue that could one day lead him to his real family.But no matter how much he searched… he had never found anyone who recognized it.Until now.“Who are you?” Carl finally asked, his voice low but steady.His eyes narrowed slightly.“Are you my…?”The man suddenly chuckled.“What? Do you think I’m your father?”Carl fell silent.A strange wave of nervousness rushed through him.The idea of having a father—A real father.It was something he had never truly imagined before.And now that the possibility had been thrown right in front
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Carl never made it to the airport.Instead of leaving Brightskia, he stayed.But he no longer returned to the palace.For the time being, Carl checked into a hotel and waited for news from Red. At the same time, he began conducting his own investigation. Waiting around had never been his style.If someone had taken Sophia, he would find them—no matter what it took.His first stop was the car Sophia and Jessa had been riding in before the kidnapping. The vehicle had already been recovered and taken to a secure location.Carl carefully examined every inch of it.He had seen countless crime scenes before, and experience had taught him that the smallest detail could reveal the biggest truth.That was when something caught his eye.A sigil.Carl frowned immediately.It was carved faintly near the edge of the door—so subtle that most people wouldn’t even notice it unless they were specifically looking for it.But Carl noticed.And it didn’t belong to the society’s symbol he was familiar wit
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Carl couldn’t believe what had just happened.Sophia knew everything now.And just as he had expected… she hadn’t taken it well.Carl immediately went to Sophia’s room, hoping to catch her before she left the palace. But when he pushed the door open, he froze in confusion.Only the servants were inside.They were already cleaning the room, stripping the bed and clearing away the last of her belongings as if she had never been there at all.“Your Majesty.”The servants immediately stopped what they were doing and bowed respectfully when they saw him.Carl’s eyes quickly scanned the room.“Where is Ms. Carson?” he asked.The servants glanced at each other hesitantly.“She just left, Your Majesty,” one of them answered carefully. “I believe she’s still somewhere outside the palace.”Carl didn’t waste another second.He turned around and rushed out of the palace.But by the time he reached the main entrance, all he saw was the back of Sophia’s car disappearing down the long palace road.“
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Carl immediately walked toward Sophia.“Let’s talk outside.”He tried to take her hand, but she quickly pulled it away as if his touch burned her.“Why outside?” Sophia replied coldly. “Why not here? That way the truth can finally come out, right?”Her gaze slowly shifted to the queen.“Is that alright with you, Your Majesty?”Andrea sighed and turned slightly away, as if the entire scene already exhausted her.“Of course,” she answered calmly. “But don’t forget your manners. I am still the queen.”A dry laugh escaped Sophia’s lips. She nodded slowly, though the bitterness in her eyes was impossible to miss.“Well, of course,” she said. “You are the queen.”Her smile sharpened.“But I never imagined you were capable of something like this.”Her voice hardened.“How could you take someone else’s man?”Andrea’s eyes narrowed immediately. She looked at Sophia with cold fury.“What did you just say?”“Sophia—” Carl quickly tried to stop her.But Sophia didn’t even glance at him.“I said,”
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“I want a divorce now,” Carl said firmly.Andrea stared at him.“I already explained this to you, Carl. We will do it—but not now. You know the situation we’re dealing with,” she insisted.Carl shook his head.“I can’t keep doing this if you continue with all of this. I can’t lose Sophia.”Andrea looked away.For a moment, she felt as if every hair on the back of her neck had risen. A sharp pain pierced through her chest after hearing Carl’s words.Of course.Sophia was the love of his life.She already knew that from the very beginning.“Of course… she’s the love of your life,” Andrea said quietly. “But remember that you took an oath to the crown. Even if this marriage started as a deal, doesn’t it mean anything to you at all?”She tried her best to keep her voice from trembling.She didn’t understand why she suddenly felt this way.When she and Carl first got married, everything had been clear between them. They talked about it calmly. She agreed to the arrangement—not because she h
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