Chapter 374
Sophia’s POV
“Just go,” I whispered, too exhausted to summon any more anger. “Please. Just… go.”
He didn’t leave.
Instead, he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his phone.
“Before I do,” Lucas said, his voice carefully controlled, “you need to see something. You need to understand what triggered the attack.”
My father stepped forward, his entire body coiled like a spring ready to snap. “She doesn’t need to see anything from you.” His voice rose to a roar. “I told
you to get OUT! Didn’t you hear me?!”
But Lucas was already walking back toward us, his movements deliberate and unwavering. My father lunged forward, grabbing Lucas’s arm with both hands,
trying to physically stop him.
“Don’t you dare come near her!” my father shouted, his grip white–knuckled. “I swear to God, if you take one more step-
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Lucas stopped but didn’t pull away. He looked my father directly in the eye, his voice steady. “The security team recovered your wife’s phone from the scene. It was locked. My team just finished breaking into it.” He held up his own phone. “This is what they found inside. What she was watching when the attack
started.
My father’s hands were still clamped around Lucas’s arm, shaking with rage and grief. “You had no right—*
“I had every right to find out what nearly killed her,” Lucas said quietly. “And Sophia needs to see this. She needs to understand what we’re dealing with.”
“Let him go, Dad,” I said softly, my voice barely audible.
My father’s head whipped toward me. “Mija-”
“Please.” I took a step forward. “If there’s something that explains what happened to Mom… I need to see it.”
For a long moment, my father didn’t move. Then, slowly, his hands released Lucas’s arm. But he didn’t step back. Instead, he positioned himself right beside
me, his body still angled protectively between Lucas and me.
Lucas held out his phone toward me, but my father snatched it from his hand first.
“I’ll look at it first,” my father said through gritted teeth. “If it’s something that’ll hurt her-
“It will hurt her, Lucas said bluntly. “But she needs to see it anyway.”
My father’s face went pale as he looked at the screen. I watched his expression shift from anger to confusion to absolute horror.
“Dios mio,” he whispered. His hand started shaking so badly I thought he might drop the phone.
“Dad?” I reached for the phone, but he pulled it away.
“No, mija. You don’t need to
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Chapter 374
Yes, do I grabbed his wrist gently but firmly. “Whatever it is, I need to see it.”
My father’s eyes met mine, filled with a pain so deep it made my chest ache. Finally, reluctantly, he handed me the phone.
The screen showed a paused video–grainy footage of a dark, rain–slicked street, timestamp showing last Tuesday night. A figure that looked like me from
behind, walking alone.
My hands were shaking as I pressed play.
The woman moved across the screen, her silhouette unmistakably similar to mine–same height, same hair, same jacket I’d been wearing recently. She was crossing what looked like Queens Boulevard when a dark sedan came speeding around the corner.
The impact was brutal. The woman’s body crumpled, thrown several feet by the force of the collision. She lay motionless on the wet pavement as the car
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