Friends No More
Unaware of Toby’s sinister intention, Zane impatiently paced back and forth. “Oh my gosh! Oh my
gosh! Now that Sonia knows you’re John Johann and the child’s father, she must have also known I
helped you hide the truth from her. Man, is this the end for me and her before it even begins?”
Upon hearing Zane’s words, Toby squinted warily. Is this guy still thinking about winning Sonia over?
He is in over his head because Sonia is mine and only mine!
“No!” Zane stopped in his tracks, seemingly determined to do something about the situation. “I must
apologize to Sonia, even if that means she’ll be mad at me. After all, I have to show my initiative to
admit my mistake because who knows she may forgive me for that?” As soon as he finished his words,
he turned around and left the ward right away before Toby could stop him.
Watching Zane disappear from his sight, Toby was worried that Sonia would eventually forgive the
former for taking the initiative to apologize. However, he soon put his mind to ease when he recalled
Sonia’s unforgiving nature, thinking Zane would only be wasting his time to apologize.
In the meantime, Zane hurriedly made his way to Bayside Residence, where he nervously hesitated for
a while before ringing the doorbell. At the same time, Sonia was about to take a rest when she heard
the doorbell, whereupon she went to answer the door. “Who is it?”
“It’s me, Sonia.” Zane’s voice was heard from the other side of the door.
The moment Sonia saw her visitor, her hand stiffened on the door handle just as her facial expression
turned cold. It’s you, Zane! When she recalled how Zane helped Toby by sitting on the truth, her anger
surged through her body and was going to get the better of her. However, she closed her eyes and
calmed herself down, responding with a cold voice. “Oh, it’s you. Please go.”
Upon hearing her glacial tone, Zane was seen with a bitter smile on his face. When he was on his way
to meet her, he had a feeling that she would give him the cold shoulder. Thus, he knew his guess was
right when he heard her grim voice. Furthermore, she turned him away directly without even bothering
to ask his purpose of visit. Therefore, he could tell how mad she was at him. “S-Sonia, I have
something I’d like to tell you. Could you please open the door?” Zane probingly asked, fixing his eyes
on the door while rubbing his hands.
“We can talk some other time. I’m not in the mood to listen to your explanation right now.” Sonia pursed
her lips.
“No! It’ll be meaningless if I don’t tell you what I want right now, Sonia. So, please open the door!
Please!” Zane crossed his fingers with his eyes closed, speaking with a voice so sympathetic no one
could turn him away.
In response, Sonia blinked in hesitation. A few seconds later, she opened the door and said, “Well, let’s
see what you have to say.”
As soon as Zane heard someone opening the door, he immediately opened his eyes. Exhilarated to
see Sonia, he happily smiled from ear to ear. “Finally, you’re willing to see me.”
“You have something to tell me, don’t you? Go on. I’m all ears now.” Sonia was seen with an
emotionless look on her face without any intention of showing her regard.
Meanwhile, Zane couldn’t help but feel slightly upset upon hearing her mean words. However, he knew
he deserved them for what he did to her. Therefore, he bitterly smiled and looked at her, noticing her
pale face. “Sonia, I heard you aborted your child. How do you feel now? I have some supplements at
home, so maybe I could…”
“Just get straight to the point!” Sonia frowned and made her point known as she didn’t want Zane to
waste time beating around the bush.
Zane gulped and sighed. “Alright. Alright, I’ll cut the crap and get to the point now. I-uh-I… heard that
you already knew Toby was your child’s father, so…”
“So what?” Sonia stared at the man with her cold, piercing gaze.
For the first time, Zane felt Sonia’s indifferent attitude as she had never treated him so coldly, not even
before they grew closer to each other three months ago. Oh man, it looks like she is really pissed off
with me! At the thought of that, Zane looked down and apologized. “I’m sorry, Sonia. I shouldn’t have
held out on you.”
Sonia sniggered and fixed her gaze on him. “You shouldn’t have held out on me? Oh, you sure looked
like you were enjoying those moments while I acted like a fool with no idea what was going on. In fact, I
asked you a few times who Z-H was, but you brushed me off with some silly and perfunctory answers
every single time. So, how did that look like you shouldn’t have held out on me? And now that you
came to me for forgiveness, I can’t help but find your apology insincere and fake. After all, I don’t think
you apologized because you’ve learned from your mistakes, but because your lie has been exposed.
For that, you were forced to apologize to me. Aren’t I right?”
“Ugh…” Zane’s lips stiffened in silence because he couldn’t refute a single word she said. Indeed, he
wouldn’t have apologized and confessed his mistakes to her if she hadn’t known the truth beforehand.
Looking at Zane’s guilty look, Sonia rubbed her forehead and asked, “So, is this why you came here?
To apologize to me?”
“Yes.” Zane rubbed his nose. “It was true that I helped Toby keep you in the dark, and if you hadn’t
discovered the truth, I would have continued to sit on the secret. In fact, when I first agreed to help
Toby, I was merely doing it out of kind intentions, but as we got along with each other in the past few
months, I started to think that hiding the truth from you was for your own good because I didn’t want the
revelation to break your heart. I’m your friend after all.”
“My friend?” Sonia sneered. What a ‘friend’ you are to me, Zane! For someone who lied to me and
betrayed my trust, you’re a pretty ‘good’ friend, but I don’t think I deserve to be your friend.
Nevertheless, Zane had no idea what Sonia was thinking in her head. He was then seen putting his
hands down as he went on and said, “I didn’t think you’d find out about it so soon, but since you
already found out about it, I suppose I must do something, which is why I came to apologize. After all,
I’m at fault for having hidden the truth from you, so I hope you could forgive me, Sonia.”
After finishing his words, Zane bowed down to Sonia in a sincere manner, but the lady took a step back
and said, “Fine, I understand why you helped Toby hide the truth from me since he is your friend.”
Zane’s eyes lit up as he stood up and agitatedly looked at her. “Does that mean you’re going to forgive
me?”
Well, understanding and forgiveness are two different things. Sonia shook her head emotionlessly and
replied, “No. I understand you, but that doesn’t mean I forgive you. You might have done what you
should as Toby’s friend, but to me, what you did was simply unacceptable. From now on, you and I are
no longer friends anymore. Instead, we’re just allies whose common enemy is the Gray Family.”
“Allies…” Zane’s facial expression stiffened.
“Exactly. Nothing more than allies!” Sonia pursed her lips and shut the door immediately, leaving the
man alone outside her doorstep.
With his eyes glued to the door, Zane was overwhelmed by disappointment. At that moment, he felt like
crying.
I thought she was going to forgive me, but it turned out that she didn’t want to be friends with me
anymore.
It was then that Zane recalled how much he went through just to make a positive impression on Sonia
and become friends with her while working his way to win her heart over. However, he was quickly
dismayed and discouraged by the thought that he could no longer be friends with her, let alone woo
her. Therefore, he scratched his head in annoyance. “No way! I mustn’t let things worsen!” I must talk
to Sonia and save our friendship at the very least, even though she may not forgive me in the end.
As Zane raised his hand and was about to reach the doorbell, the phone in his pocket rang. With a
frown on his face, he rummaged for his phone before realizing it was a call from home. Therefore, he
quickly answered it and said, “Hello.” After hearing what the caller told him, his face changed. “Alright, I
heard you. I’m coming back now.” Then, he took his phone away from his ear and typed a text
message, whereupon he sent it to Sonia and made for the elevator hastily.
On the other hand, Sonia was going to grab herself a glass of water when she heard her phone
vibrating on the table. Thus, she reached for it, only to realize that it was a message from Zane. She
then put down the glass of water and viewed the content of the message he sent her. ‘Sonia, I have
something I must attend to right now, but when I’m done with that, let’s talk things through. Can we?’
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