Chapter 11

"Susan ......"
"I know what sister wanted to ask." Susan interrupted her, "That's right, I was the one who deliberately changed the menu to make a fool of my sister, but I didn't expect her to react so quickly and defuse it so easily."
"Why?" Sophia didn't expect her to say it so easily, without any regret at all, instead she looked chagrined that she didn't make a fool out of her.
"Why?" Susan repeated her words slowly and snorted, "Sister, why don't you ask your father and mother why they only favored you growing up, why don't you ask how you could be brother Carl's fiancée from birth?"
"Sister, don't you think your question is funny?" She looked like she heard a big joke, "Do you know how much I want to throw up when I play the big drama of sisterly love with you every day!"
"I know my parents didn't spoil you growing up, so I doubled my love for you and tried to make it up to you, I think I've been good to you, what else have I done to you?" Sophia couldn't believe she could actually say something like that.
"You're my sister is what I'm most sorry for!" Susan said in a hateful voice.
"Do you understand or not. As long as you're around, I'll never be taken seriously." Susan stared at her viciously, "You always think you're good to me, but the little attention I get by playing pitiful with all my might, just because you're good to me once, it becomes a song about you, they only remember that you're friendly to your relatives and forget about me, do you think that's fair to me?"
"Do you know how jealous I am of you? You easily get what I want, and still question why people hate you so much while giving them charity? I really don't know whether to call you naive or stupid!"
Susan suddenly laughed: "By the way, I have not told you, right, I have seduced brother Carl before, but he refused to take the bait because of you, and as a result, I turned out to be his MATE, his destined one, and after a roundabout way, he did not still become something of mine."
"Sister, so what if you become the queen, the game between us is still won by me, the one you love most now loves me, you can never take it away." She laughed triumphantly.
Sophia's body was shivering with anger; her face was so sad that she couldn't stand her taunts anymore. She stood up and slapped Susan's face so hard that her face immediately swelled up.
Susan's head was tilted and her face was burning with pain, she almost thought she was going to break her face and screamed to hit back.
But her hand was stopped halfway, and the servant grabbed her and bellowed, "Is the queen also you can do it?!"
Sophia sadly covered her face and fell into a chair, not bothering with Susan who was dragged out by the servant.
Susan shouted as she was dragged out and left on the main road at the entrance of the palace, thoroughly surrounded by people coming and going, and ran away with her face covered in self shame.
Sophia had never hated herself more than now, confident that she was a high school student of psychology, because any ugliness hidden under the skin could not escape her eyes, but did not think that she was blind and blind, blinded by the people who had been together for more than ten years and closest to her.
For the first time, she doubted herself, doubted whether what she had done all these years was right or wrong.
She regrets, she grieves, she hates herself for not seeing her sister's true colors sooner, if she could have seen it earlier, maybe she and Carl would not have ended it so easily.
Yes, Carl!
Sophia drifted awake, shocked to realize that Carl was still in the dark, thinking Susan was a naive and kind little angel.
She immediately sat up.
"Help me find out Master Carl's schedule for today." Sophia poured down a cup of cold tea and instructed the servant.
The servant left less than half an hour later and returned with the news he had scouted.
"Your Majesty, Master Carl is visiting the noble lords who live in the city and has not yet rejoined Miss Susan, with only one servant by his side." "Thank you.
"Thank you. Sophia smiled at her and rubbed her face wearily, "order down, I am going out of the palace."
After a pause, she added, "No need to alert the king, I'll go alone."
Ten minutes later, a low-profile carriage went out through the partial gate of the palace, without alerting anyone.
As Carl stepped out of the home of a nobleman, he caught a glimpse of the woman who had hidden herself under the wide brim of her hat, and immediately recognized Sophia by her familiarity with her.
Startled, Carl dismissed the servant and walked quickly over to her, whispering, "Why is the queen running out alone, without a guard."
Sophia lifted her head, revealing a pale little face, which had no trace of blood and very vacant eyes.
"I sent them away, can you talk to me alone for a moment?" Sophia's voice was a little hoarse, she sniffled, not knowing if it was from the suddenly cool wind or something else, her body was also slightly shivering.
Carl was a bit distressed and immediately agreed, taking Sophia to a nearby cafe.
The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
It was almost autumn.
"You came out here specifically to see me, is there something you want to do?" Carl took a sip of coffee and moistened his slightly dry lips.
Sophia nodded her head, but for a moment she didn't know how to speak.
Carl saw her helplessness and thoughtfully changed the subject: "Susan said she was going to look for you this morning, why weren't you with her?"
That really hit the nail on the head, Sophia sighed, looked up solemnly and asked him, "If nothing happened to MATE, would you stay with me forever?"
"Will!" Carl answered without a hint of hesitation.
"Then do you trust me?" She asked again.
Carl nodded again.
"Do you want to know why Susan went to see me this morning?" Sophia shook her cup, watching the coffee inside swish around, but unable to reveal a drop because of her control, sadly realizing it was like her now.
Controlled, never able to escape.
Carl saw her ask so seriously, could not help but sit up straighter for a few minutes: "She told me it was because she didn't get the things you explained done yesterday and felt guilty, so she wanted to go and apologize to you."
Seeing that Sophia didn't say anything, his expression also became serious: "Nothing happened to her, right?"
Sophia took a deep breath, she almost laughed just now, because she felt guilty to apologize to her?
That's a good thing Susan said.
"If she hadn't talked to me yesterday, I would have asked her at the party why she didn't follow the menu I drew up." Sophia's face, which always had a gentle smile on it, was now only indifferent, "And then just now, she came up to me and told me that at the banquet yesterday, she was deliberately trying to make a fool of me."
"How is that possible!" Carl exclaimed, "Is there some kind of misunderstanding."
"How could there be a misunderstanding." She showed a smile that was worse than crying, "She said herself that she was just pretending to be sisterly with me before, and in fact she hates me every moment just because she didn't get more favor and status than me."
Carl's brow furrowed, and it was clear that he didn't quite believe what Sophia was saying.
"Even before I became the queen's, she let me down several times, and now that I think about it, it was all because she deliberately crossed me." Sophia couldn't control her emotions a bit and buried her face in her hands, not wanting him to see how wretched she was at this time.
"There must be some kind of misunderstanding." Carl said with certainty, "Susan is the one we both watched growing up, how can we see that there is really something wrong only now."
"You don't believe me?" Sophia looked at him blankly and couldn't help but question, "Susan told me that she had deliberately seduced you before because she was unhappy with your engagement to me, is that true?"
Carl didn't expect her to throw out such a question, and was a little embarrassed.
Susan was now his mate, and once these issues got out, it would be bad for both of their reputations, so it was absolutely impossible for him to admit it.
He pretended to be angry and said, "There is never such a thing! Susan is my mate, and there is no need for her to do such a thing. sophia, she is your sister, how can you slander her like that!"
"Sophia, how have you become like this."
He seemed to be disappointed with her, and left in a hurry with these words.
Sophia didn't expect it to turn out this way and froze, not knowing what to do in response, watching him run away without her until the waiter asked for the bill.
The rain outside the window was falling even harder, and Sophia looked out the window lost in thought, feeling that the whole world had abandoned her.
"No one believes me, no one cares about me." She said to herself.
She stood up, stumbled out of the cafe, and plunged headlong into the rain.
The sky was slowly darkening, the streets were gradually emptying, she didn't have an umbrella with her, and her body was soon soaked through by the heavy rain.
As if she hadn't noticed, she walked on through the rain, not knowing where to go, not knowing where she could still go.
Aaron returned to his bedchamber in the evening, wanting to hold his lover and warm up a bit, but found Sophia, who should have been in bed after bathing, missing.
His face immediately sank and he asked in a cold voice, "Where is the queen?"
The servant knelt in front of him with trepidation and said fearfully, "The queen inquired about young master Carl's trip and went out of the palace, we were supposed to follow, but the queen drove us back and said she would return later on her own."
"The queen went out without her guards, just a few of us followed, we had tried to sneak up on her, but the queen threw her off ......"
Aaron's face became ugly, the pressure on his body was getting thicker and thicker, directly crushing the person in front of him to the ground.
The servant was about to cry and shouted loudly against his intimidating pressure, "Your Majesty, the guards have gone out to look for the queen, they should be found soon!"
Aaron put on his coat and stepped right over her, and for a moment the servant thought he saw death.
"If anything happens to her, you will kill yourselves to thank her!"