Piss Off, Alpha! You Lost Me Forever novel Chapter 170

Chapter 170: Chapter 170 You Deserve To Be Free

SOPHIA’S POV

We were still talking when we turned the corner toward my office.

Lance was mid-sentence, saying something about a research paper he had reviewed the night before, and I was listening with half my attention.

Then I saw him.

Damien was standing outside my office door.

He was simply standing there. His wolf energy was contained and quiet this morning, unlike last night. He had put himself back together. He always put himself back together.

What was he doing here?

I stopped walking for just a second. Then I kept going.

My face stayed neutral. My pace stayed even. Whatever this was, I was not going to have drama the middle of a hospital corridor in front of my colleagues and my friend.

Lance had gone quiet beside me. I felt him notice the situation without saying anything.

Damien saw me coming then moved away from the door. He stepped forward into the corridor, positioning himself in front of me. His eyes moved briefly to Lance, then came back to me and stayed there.

I stopped in front of him. "What are you doing here?"

He didn’t answer the question directly. Instead he reached into the inner pocket of his jacket and brought out a folder.

"It’s signed," he said. "Everything. All the pages, all the clauses. You can handle the next steps on your end. Desmond said the courthouse filing should be straightforward from here."

I looked at the folder in his hand.

Seven years. This was a marriage that had started with me believing completely in our love. Now, it had ended with me learning how to want nothing from it at all. And here it was – in a a blue folder, held out in a hospital corridor.

I took it.

I opened the folder, scanning each page methodically. The signatures were there.

I closed the folder and slid it into my bag.

"I’ll file it soon," I said.

I turned toward my office door.

"Sophia."

I stopped. I didn’t turn around immediately. I took one breath first then turned.

Damien was looking at me with an expression I recognized from last night. His jaw was tight.

"Ashley," he said. "Are you going to keep seeing her?"

I looked at him directly. "She’s my daughter. Of course I’m going to see her. Don’t interfere with that."

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