It wasn't long before Sophie packed a suitcase and decided to leave.
My dad blocked her path.
"What will people say about the Bennett family if you leave now?"
With red-rimmed eyes, Sophie asked, "Then what do you expect me to do? Stay here and let him torment me every day?"
My dad slapped her across the face.
Sophie pressed a hand to her cheek and gave a hollow laugh.
"So that's it? Because I'm not your biological daughter, I mean nothing to you."
The living room went silent.
Upstairs, Marcus's door opened. He rolled into the hall, his eyes cold.
"You only just figured that out?"
Sophie left anyway that night.
She took none of the Bennett family's jewelry or credit cards. She dragged a battered suitcase behind her, its wheels clattering unevenly across the floor. She was still
