Chapter 4

I gave the officers an apologetic smile. "I am so sorry to waste your time, officers. Marcus is indeed my daughter's boyfriend, but I had absolutely no knowledge of him breaking into my home.

"Please prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law."

Sophia completely lost her mind. Any pretense of a loving mother-daughter bond vanished instantly.

She shouted, "Diana, you vicious bitch! You just can't stand to see me happy. I finally found true love, and you are ruining Marcus just to tear us apart.

"You're just doing this to force me to come crawling back. Well, I…