Chapter 54

"I-I didn't! Godmother, I didn't trick Nicholas!" Sophia panicked, her voice trembling as her eyes turned red. She leaned into Henrietta, acting all pitiful and wronged, but deep down, she was cursing Caitlin like mad. Normally, any woman being accused of cheating and then getting attacked by such a domineering mother-in-law would be crying their eyes out, totally overwhelmed. This wasn't just any family—this was the Perkins family, the top of Lichester's elite. Becoming Mrs. Perkins meant serious power, and who'd dare go head-to-head with a mother-in-law in a place like this? No one in their right mind would risk getting booted out. But to Sophia's shock, something she thought was priceless—being Mrs. Perkins—meant nothing to Samantha. She wasn't scared in the slightest. Calm, reasonable, like none of this nonsense could touch her. Totally not what Sophia expected. Even with damning "evidence" thrown at her about cheating, this woman didn't cry, didn't freak out. She even used the who