Her Divorce, His Downfall (Sophia and Damian) novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177 The Call That Changed Everything

It was Damian’s phone. He pulled it out and checked the screen.

The name “Liam” flashed across the display.

He glanced at Sophia. She hadn’t reacted, just stood there quietly, watching him.

The hostility and jealousy in his eyes dimmed a fraction, replaced by a flicker of gravity.

He swiped to answer. His voice was low and controlled. “Talk.”

On the other end, Liam caught the edge of impatience beneath Damian’s calm and launched straight into his report.

“Mr. Hall, we found something. I hired three top–tier private investigators, and we finally have a lead.”

His voice carried a note of urgency. After relaying one critical piece of information, his tone turned grave.

“Rhea was originally Michael’s personal secretary. She was let go without explanation. We’re still digging into what was behind that.”

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The line went dead. Damian’s fingers tightened around the

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skull. Every word landed like a boulder, obliterating what was left of his composure.

Damian stood frozen. The blood drained from his face as if someone had siphoned it out.

A second later, it rushed back in a violent surge to the top of his head. The pain was so acute he pressed a hand to his chest and nearly collapsed.

Damian, who commanded a corporate empire, who was steel and decisiveness, shed every sharp edge in that moment. He looked like a wounded animal, ashen and broken.

Tears came without warning. They spilled down his jaw and landed on his custom–tailored shirt, spreading into dark stains. He didn’t notice.

Sophia hadn’t heard a word of the call. She had no idea what had happened.

But she had never, not once, seen Damian like this. He looked like a man who’d just had his entire world ripped away, buckling under unimaginable agony.

Seconds ago, he hadn’t so much as flinched with a gun pressed to his skull. What could possibly break a man like that?

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All she knew was that a deep, formless panic was spreading through her chest.

Damian’s fists clenched until his nails sank deep into his palms. Blood soaked through the gauze. He didn’t acknowledge it.

This. This was why he’d ended up like this. Why he’d driven his wife away. It all came down to this one brutal truth.

He remembered the look in Sophia’s eyes in the fire. That despair. That helpless rage. He remembered her saying “I don’t know” over and over, and how he’d stubbornly believed she’d kidnapped Isabelle out of jealousy, strung her up in the air, and interrogated her again and again.

He’d swapped Sophia with Isabelle. He’d thrown Sophia to Blake and let Blake stab her in the leg.

Every memory ripped his heart out of his chest and tore a gaping hole through it.

Regret and agony poured through the wound like ice water, filling him until he could barely breathe.

Without warning, he slapped himself across the face, Hard, Again. And again. Hard enough to split his lip. His voice was raw with self–loathing. “I deserve to die!”

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He really had gone insane. One minute he was calmly threatening her, the next he was sobbing in front of her. Was this a complete personality split?

Then, softly, Damian laughed. The sound, threaded with sobs, was eerie enough to raise the hair on the back of her neck.

The laugh was uglier than crying. His lips stretched into a rigid, hollow curve. Tears kept falling. His ruined voice dripped with despairing self–contempt.

“I had it coming. I’m a fool. A complete and utter fool.”

Sophia was on the verge of losing her own mind. She couldn’t understand what had happened to him.

This version of Damian was more terrifying than the

domineering, forceful one from minutes ago, because she had no idea what was driving it.

“Damian!” She shouted his name, her voice shaking. “Snap out of it. Don’t lose it on me.”

Hearing her call his name pulled him back from wherever he’d

gone.

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