A year later.
News of the Scott Group's collapse surfaced on f*******: back home. A friend I hadn't heard from in ages sent me a message on w******p. He said Sean had dumped all his shares at bargain prices. These days, he spent every waking hour in bars, drinking himself into a stupor.
Lily: [What happened to Sophia?]
Friend: [She abandoned him.]
Apparently, Sophia never had the baby. She also dragged Sean through a divorce battle, demanding her share of the property. But once she learned there was nothing under his name except crushing debt, she vanished completely.
A year later, hearing about their miserable end from someone else, I felt neither triumph nor satisfaction. Only a quiet indifference remained, as if those events had happened in another life.
I set my phone aside and s
