Sophia glanced at the phone discarded beside her and let out a quiet sigh. Reluctantly, she picked it up and slid it into her purse.

It wasn't as though she wanted to take Sinclair's call anyway.

Still... Samuel stepping in to help her had caught her entirely off guard.

“Fine,” she said, her response clipped but resolute. Samuel’s deep, impenetrable eyes lingered on her, a cold smile playing at his lips, as if amused by her sudden compliance. For ...