Married Your Girl Bestie as a Dare? Congrats You're Stuck with her now novel Chapter 33

Chapter 12

He thought about the message he’d seen on Victoria’s phone, regretting why he hadn’t cooked Sophia’s favorite dishes that day.

That day was the last time he’d cooked for her after long while, yet he’d been too lazy to make

what she liked.

That evening, Alexander had the housekeeper buy many ingredients-all Sophia’s favorites,

He spent three hours cooking a table full of dishes, placing an empty bowl across from him.

Alexander sat down and served food into the empty bowl as if Sophia were still there.”Sophia, eat

1. These are all your favorites.”

After serving the food, he looked down and ate his rice, one bite after another. Tears silently fell,

mixing with the rice as he swallowed.

At night, he lay on Sophia’s side of the bed to sleep,

In his dream, he saw Sophia standing a few steps away, smiling at him with her lips moving, but he couldn’t hear anything.

His voice grew urgent. “Sophia, what are you saying? I can’t hear you.”

He walked toward her, but no matter how he tried, he couldn’t reach her or hear her words until Alexander grew increasingly panicked and began running, finally reaching her and hearing what she was saying.

She said, “Congratulations on your wedding.”

Alexander jolted awake and sat up to realize it was just a dream, but as the panic faded, despair about reality flooded back since Sophia had truly left him and given him that blessing, though he felt no happiness.

The pain in his heart surged like a tide, making it hard to breathe, while the weight of her absence pressed down on him relentlessly.

He tremblingly held his head, helplessly pleading, “I’m sorry… I’m sorry, Sophia. I know I was wrong. Don’t… don’t make me unable to find you. Please come see me… I really can’t take this anymore…”

From that day on, Sophia vanished like she’d evaporated from the world. No matter how many resources he used, he couldn’t find her.

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His emotions gradually collapsed in this despair.

“Sophia, where are you…”

His hunched shoulders trembled slightly as his eyes gradually moistened with tears that blurred

his vision, while occasional sobs escaped, filled with despair and helplessness.

Eventually, he fell asleep clutching Sophia’s pillow fightly.

The next day, Alexander dressed properly and went to the company.

During the day, he worked to compensate for the losses from that incident, staying until 11 or 12 PM

every night.

If it were before, he would never work so late.

Because Sophia was afraid of the dark, he always came home early to be with her.

But now, thinking of what he’d done during this period made his heart feel torn apart.

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He’d left Sophia-who was afraid of the dark-alone on the mountain to walk down by herself,

while he stayed in a warm home with Victoria.

For a moment, he wished he could travel back and kill his past self. At least then Sophia might still

have some attachment to him.

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But nothing he thought now was useful-what happened had happened, and Sophia still hadn’t

been found.

Every day when he returned home, though his body was exhausted, his nerves remained tense. He

feared missing any news about Sophia.

He could only rely on alcohol to sleep. When drunk, he’d take his phone and send Sophia apologetic

messages.

The next morning, he’d wake to countless chat bubbles with no response.

He spent every day like this, visibly becoming more haggard.

Seeing his condition, friends invited him out for drinks to help him cope.

In the private room, everyone looked at his dejected state, unsure how to comfort him. Fortunately, he didn’t need comfort.

He just silently drank glass after glass, quickly becoming too drunk to know where he was.

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He collapsed on the sofa, constantly touching the ring hanging around his neck, mumbling, I’m sorry… I’m sorry, Sophia. I love you, I really love you. Please forgive me… Come back to me… I can’t live without you… I really can’t live without you…”

Everyone in the room was shocked by this scene, not expecting Alexander’s love for Sophia to run

so deep.

It was as if Sophia’s departure had taken his soul with her. When he’d arranged his marriage, they thought he’d moved on and was keeping her as a mistress.

They never realized this relationship had taken root in his heart.

When his assistant called, Alexander was in an important meeting, but hearing there was news, he immediately dismissed everyone.

The assistant sent several photos, saying, “This is a popular B2B. These photos show the owner, who looks very similar to Mrs. Sterling.”

He still called Sophia “Mrs. Sterling” because Alexander hadn’t told him to change it.

This was the only lead in six months, and Alexander stared at the photos on his phone-only a profile was visible, but he recognized his Sophia immediately.

She looked happy in the photos, which both relieved him-she wasn’t affected by that incident- and pained him, because he wasn’t sure if her lack of being affected applied only to that incident or included him as well.

But he couldn’t think about that now-he had to find her.

Not a moment could be wasted.

He had his assistant book the earliest flight. The assistant mentioned, “Mr. Sterling, you have an important client meeting tonight…”

“You go instead. Tell them I’m dying and can’t make it.”

He hung up, grabbed his suit jacket, and hurried downstairs toward the airport.

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