Reborn to Burn Them All novel Chapter 136

Chapter 136

Chapter 136

Sophia returned to the party in high spirits after making a fortune.

After she left, the party returned to normal. Rose had slipped away unnoticed at some point. While this was disappointing for the onlookers, none of it really mattered.

In the courtyard, Maelis chased after Jerome, hitting him as she shouted, “You lying bastard! How dare you show up at my house! Just looking at you makes me sick. Stay away from me! If I ever see you again, I’ll beat you senseless! ”

Jerome had no desire to attend, but his parents forced him to come. Under the mocking gazes of the guests, he felt nothing but utter humiliation.

“Maelis, don’t push it!” Jerome snapped. “I never once said I was your savior. You can’t even recognize the person who actually saved you, and now you’re blaming me? How ridiculous is that?”

Rage boiling over, Maelis charged in her high heels and mercilessly struck him with her retractable baton. “Mess with me and you’re dead!”

Jerome, still reeling from being chased and beaten, stumbled right into Sophia as he tried to escape.

Jerome’s sinister eyes flashed crimson, making no attempt to hide his hatred. He snarled, “Sophia, I’ll be waiting to see you reap what you sow. Did you really think you could cross so many people and not pay the price?”

Sophia glanced at the two red handprints on his face, a smirk playing on her lips. “Only losers make empty threats,” she sneered, “and you’re not even worth calling a loser.” With that, she lifted her chin and strode past him, radiating pure arrogance.

Jerome’s fists clenched until his knuckles cracked, his facial muscles twitching with rage. He swore to himself, ‘I’ll make that bitch Sophia pay for this.

Knowing that all of Maelis’s changes were thanks to Sophia, Frank and Megan treated her as their most honored guest.

Megan took Sophia’s hand, her eyes crinkling with a warm smile. “Sophia, 1 took an instant liking to you the moment we met. You must visit us often. Maelis may be naive, but she’s kind–hearted. Thanks to you, she changed so much.”

Megan smiled as she took out an exquisite little box. “Dear, I wasn’t sure what you’d like, so please don’t stand on ceremony. This is a welcome gift for you. Do accept it and see if it suits your taste.”

Faced with Megan’s enthusiasm, Sophia, her expression unchanged, accepted the box. When she opened it, she found a car key–a Ferrari key.

Sophia stared at the car key, momentarily at a loss for words.

Megan smiled and said, “Maelis told me your car got scratched up and you haven’t had time to get a new one yet. I hope this gift comes just in time.”

Sophia raised an eyebrow slightly. “This is for me?”

Megan nodded with a smile. “That’s right. Maelis has one too–hers is red, and yours is white.”

Sophia glanced at Megan, whose kind, gentle gaze held nothing but pure affection–the sort of unreserved warmth one shows to family.

This was the first time in all her lifetimes that Sophia truly felt the warmth of an elder’s affection. She stared at the car key in silence.

Beside her, Maelis thought Sophia might not like it. She quickly said, “Sophia, I picked this car myself, You’re gonna love it.”

Sophia wasn’t one for false modesty. She accepted the car key. “Thanks.”

Maelis beamed with delight.

Megan gave Maelis a playful poke on the forehead. “You’re a grown woman now, yet you still act like a child.”

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Maelis clung to her mother’s arm and swayed it playfully. “I’m only twenty three. I’ll always be your baby, Mom, the said, Megan shook her mix of exasperation and affection.

Sophia watched the warm interaction between Maelis and Megan, her eyelids lowering slightly. After tucking away the car key, the cast a glance toward the young man seated beside Frank Andy, Maelis’s brother.

Andy noticed Sophia’s gaze and turned to give her a polite nod of acknowledgment.

Sophia averted her gaze.

Dorian glanced between her and Andy, then gently tugged at Sophia’s skirt. “Sophia,” he whispered.

Sophia knew exactly what Dorian wanted to say and sighed in resignation. “We’ll talk later,” she said, Dorian was so engrossed in the gossip that he didn’t miss even a single glance from her.

When Megan casually gifted a sports car, the onlookers felt the pressure mounting. Parents with daughters immediately started nervously asking their girls what young women liked.

It was fine when mothers asked, but when dads started asking their own daughters about gifts for girls, the daughters became suspicious. One daughter shot back, “You’re asking your own daughter what gifts to give young girls, Dad? Don’t you think that’s a little weird?”

Some girls even shot back, “If you’re shopping for a trophy wife, I’ll make sure Mom knows.”

This was utterly ridiculous. The fathers scratched their heads, at a complete loss as they tried to explain things to their daughters.

Amid the lively party, Dorian–the self–proclaimed gossip king–was mobbed by curious guests all clamoring to add him on social media and swap contact info.

Knowing Sophia disliked socializing, Frank and Megan tactfully presented their gift and left her alone.

Sophia sat there, leisurely nibbling on her food when her phone suddenly blared an alert. She pulled it out and saw a red exclamation mark flash across the screen.

The red exclamation mark vanished, replaced by text on the screen, [Intruder detected in Master’s private premises. The defense system activated. Intruder locked. Awaiting Master’s command.] Below were two buttons–one red and one green.

Expressionless, Sophia tapped the green button.

Dorian came back after swapping contact info, his eyes sparkling with curiosity. “Hey, Sophia, what’s that?”

Sophia explained calmly, “It’s a security system I designed myself. Someone just broke into my room.”

Dorian froze for a moment, then leaned in, eyes bright with curiosity. “Wait, a security system? Can I see it?”

Sophia tapped her phone once, and a surveillance feed/immediately popped up. The footage from five minutes earlier showed Wette furtively opening Sophia’s door and slipping inside.