The Doormat Wife’s Ultimate Glow-Up novel Chapter 158

Matthew picked up on her hesitation right away. He reached out, offering to end the call for her. “You don’t have to answer. Or, if you want, I can take care of it.”

But Reese was quicker. She pulled her phone back, shaking her head. “Matt, there are things I’ve got to learn to deal with myself. I don’t want to rely on anyone else anymore. I want to stand on my own.”

Matthew heard the gentle strength in her voice, and something shifted inside him. She was turning down his help, putting up a boundary, insisting she didn’t want to depend on him. But for the first time, she called him Matt, a softer, more intimate name. That had to mean something, didn’t it?

He shot her a thoughtful look, but Reese was already answering Hank’s call.

Hank’s voice came through, full of anger. “Reese, why are you accusing Sofia of leaking company information?

“You need to call the Bureau right now and clear Sofia’s name. She had nothing to do with this.”

“That’s not for you or me to decide,” Reese replied, her tone calm but steady. “The Bureau will do their own investigation.”

Her heart clenched. She never thought Hank would come at her so harshly over Sofia, treating her like some villain trying to set Sofia up. The idea was ridiculous. She had never tried to involve Sofia, let alone frame her. She had no clue how Sofia got dragged into this.

The accusation that she set Sofia up? It was just absurd.

“If she’s innocent, the investigation will prove it,” Reese said, and ended the call.

On the other end, Hank’s expression darkened. He hesitated for a moment, then grabbed his coat. “Let’s go. We’re heading to BlackOak to find her.”

To Hank, this wasn’t just about Sofia. He saw this as Reese getting back at him for telling the Ratcliff family about her abortion. If things went south, the Bureau could really take Sofia away for questioning, and he wasn’t going to let that happen.

Reese seemed to forget she hadn’t gotten her mother’s shares from the Meyer family yet. Half of those shares were his, and if he didn’t agree, she’d never get them.

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