Chapter 51 Sophia Sockpuppet Exposed
Sophia's voice dropped lower, her tone ice-cold. "I'll give you the evidence later, but do you know what she..."
"Sophia, before the truth comes out, you shouldn't have poisoned her first. Someone could die."
Sophia let out a disdainful laugh. "You can keep your cool, but I can't hold back even a little."
Alice, hiding behind him, flashed Sophia a smug smile.
When William's gaze turned to her, she instantly transformed into a pitiful, tearful figure, biting her lip as she looked at him with grievance.
"William, I really didn't do anything."
"I haven't even left the Smith family's door these past few days. If you don't believe me, you can ask Patrick and the others. I've been in my room recovering the whole time."
Her hand touched her injured face, which still bore scars from being scraped by gravel.
"I often take care of James and Michael. They're like my own sons. How could I possibly hurt them?"
Her eyes reddened as she angrily said to Sophia, "Sophia, I know you hate me, but you can't frame me and poison me!"
Alice looked up at William's refined features, saying pitifully, "William, that drug is making my heart hurt so much."
She had practiced this scene many times in front of the mirror. Any ordinary man would have fallen for her beauty trap and victim act by now.
But William seemed increasingly cold toward her, only calling the family doctor for her.
When the doctor arrived and ran a series of tests, nothing was wrong. Alice raised her voice, insisting it was impossible.
"My heart feels like it's being gnawed by insects. How can there be nothing wrong? You must have made a mistake!"
The doctor who came was Jeremy Wright. Though he was the Smith family's physician, he had countless students, most of whom were experts at major hospitals.
He himself was also a medical authority. How could he have made a mistake?
If he hadn't received help from the Smith family in his youth, he wouldn't have become their family doctor.
"Ms. Rivera, if you don't trust me, you're welcome to find someone else."
Since becoming a doctor, no one had questioned his medical skills to his face like this. Jeremy's expression immediately darkened.
"Jeremy, that's not what I meant..."
Jeremy recognized Sophia, and his eyes immediately lit up when he saw her.
In front of everyone, he called out a title that shocked them all.
"Ah! Dr. Johnson, you're finally back in Empire City!"
Except for Sophia herself, everyone else's expressions were priceless.
In this world, Sophia was the only person this medical authority would call Dr. Johnson.
Sophia said flatly, "You've got the wrong person. I'm not Dr. Johnson."
Back when she was weak and sickly at the Smith family, Jeremy often came for house calls.
Later, to thank him, she gave him a health-boosting pill to research.
He won many awards thanks to that pill.
From then on, whenever he saw her, he no longer called her Mrs. Smith, but Dr. Johnson.
She had tried to stop him many times, but it was useless.
Alice was jealous and resentful!
Why? Why was Sophia so capable? Why did she receive so much recognition from others?
While she could only pick up Sophia's leftovers!
"William, my heart really hurts. It must be the poison Sophia gave me taking effect."
Her pale face wasn't fake, and the poison wasn't fake either.
But Jeremy couldn't detect anything.
Hearing that it was poison Sophia had given her, Jeremy's eyes lit up, and his gaze toward Alice immediately became intense.
He looked at William with feigned seriousness. "Mr. Smith, I'd like to take Ms. Rivera to the hospital for a full examination. If she's really been poisoned, I'll do everything in my power to treat Ms. Rivera."
Actually, not really!
His hands were just itching to study the drug Sophia had given.
Since the drug was already in her body, a blood test would be effective too.
Jeremy looked at Alice not like a patient, but like an experimental subject about to lead him into a new field.
Alice panicked under his gaze.
She instinctively tried to grab William's arm, but William walked straight to Sophia and asked her, "What evidence were you talking about just now?"
A strong masculine presence invaded her space. Sophia frowned and stepped back, only to find a wall behind her. She could only look up at the handsome and noble William before her.
She opened her phone and played a recording.
[Arrange for some reliable people to grab James and Michael. Make sure William thinks Sophia did it.]
[Don't worry, he won't suspect anything. He has complete trust in me. Remember, find people who can keep their mouths shut.]
[Contact the Female Pimp and sell Sophia's daughter. Sell her as far away as possible so she can never find her daughter in this lifetime!]
[Watch the children carefully. Don't let anyone from the Smith family find them!]
All color drained from Alice's face.
The voice in the recording was indeed hers, and the content was real, but she couldn't let William believe it was true!
"William, this isn't real. Technology is so advanced now, synthesizing voices is easy. You know me—I have no reason to do this."
William didn't immediately respond to Alice or comfort her. He just stared at her with deep, cold eyes.
"Alice, you think everything is fake except you?" Sophia had a burning anger in her chest.
"This drug is called the Three-Day Death Pill."
As the name suggested, three days after taking it would be the day of death.
The key was that during these three days, the victim would suffer unbearably.
"Listen carefully—if James and Michael lose even a single hair, I'll take your life in return!"
But Alice acted as if she had caught Sophia's weakness and immediately cried to William, "William, you heard that! She admitted to poisoning me. That name alone tells you it's nothing good!"
Sophia wasn't afraid of William knowing about this, especially since it involved the two children.
She glanced at Emily, who was drowsy on Monkey's shoulder, and reached out to hold her.
Monkey patted Emily's back and said gently to her, "Emily's asleep. Let me hold her."
Monkey, who looked fierce and menacing, actually had a very gentle personality and spoke much more softly to Sophia and Emily.
Sophia nodded.
William suddenly felt an indescribable atmosphere flowing between the two of them.
Like family, and also like...
Those eyes that silently watched them were unusually cold. He looked Monkey up and down, his throat slightly dry, his thin lips pressed tight, his whole body radiating coldness.
Just then, Emily, lying in Monkey's arms, talked in her sleep, murmuring: Daddy.
Monkey smiled gently and patted her back soothingly.
"Emily, good girl..."
William saw this scene and laughed mockingly at himself.
Sophia was also looking at Emily.
She didn't see William's expression.
Once Emily was sound asleep, she left with Monkey.
As she passed William, she didn't even glance at him. Her delicate, beautiful profile carried coldness and disappointment.
At the door, the people Sophia brought and William's people stood in confrontation.
Seeing them come out, the Johnson family's bodyguards immediately stepped forward, protecting Sophia and the others in the middle.
After leaving the Smith Mansion, Sophia immediately had Rat track down the Rivera family's stragglers, focusing on Alice's admirers.
She never expected that when she finally got the address, she would see a familiar name.
How could it be him!