I rolled my eyes at her, and she hugged me.
“Be safe, baby,” she said softly.
“I will be, or Konni would have never agreed.”
She nodded and headed toward the door.
Once it was opened, she paused.
Her gaze looked with mine.
This was it.The bait for the big catch.
I smiled reassuringly at her.
“I’ll check with Kaya and be right back,” she said.
“Hurry.”
She closed the door.I stayed put, barefoot just in case I needed to run, and watched the door.Less than a minute later, a man walked in.His surprise at seeing me calmly facing him didn’t last.
“I was sent by Mrs.Steele,” he said, crossing the space.
He only made it two steps before three men stormed in.Two from behind him and one from a side door.
They had him pinned to the floor in seconds.It almost felt anticlimactic.
“You have two choices,” I said.“Take the fall for Charlotte or tell us why she paid you three million dollars.And please don’t say it was to rape me.That won’t end well for you.
“Oh, before you try to deny anything, we already have the transfer records.We just need you as the witness.So, are you in or taking the fall?”
The man, who’d barely made a sound during the scuffle, exhaled heavily.
“I’m in.”
“Good.”
Turning away, I slipped on my shoes and clasped the Hildcrask necklace around my neck.
I looked up at the camera.“Are they ready?”
The green light blinked twice.Then my phone buzzed with a voice message from Miranda.
“Use your muscle after you make them cry for what they did to you.”
“I will,” I promised before leaving the room.Harlow was waiting in the hallway and walked me to the banquet hall’s main doors which were shut.
“You look lovely, Sophia,” he said.
“Thank you.Are you interested in my mom?”
He chuckled but didn’t answer as the doors swung open.
“Please welcome our future daughter-in-law, Sophia Elmantas,” Balak announced from the stage.
All heads turned toward me, including Dad’s and Charlotte’s, both of them standing near the front of the room.Dad was enthusiastically clapping and beaming like a proud father.Charlotte’s polite clap faltered at the sight of me and slowed further as she saw my necklace.
Our gazes met.
