The Missing SOFIA
Bab~70

"How are you doing, are you okay ?" aril said as he stepped closer to Sofia's bed, but the girl immediately shouted.

"Stop, don't come any closer !!" he said and of course made the man stop and wonder what happened to the girl before him.

"I don't want to meet you, get out of here." Sofia ordered later.

"Sofia, I just want to know your situation and I also want to apologize to you for giving you so much trouble before but if I had known from the beginning I wouldn't have done that." timpal Aril with guilt.

"I said go, I don't want to see you again and give your flowers to the other woman who deserves it more." Sardonic Sofia then threw her face away as if reluctant to respond to the man again.

Aril fell silent in his place, then gave a small nod. "Alright, I go if it makes you feel better" he said, leaving the girl, as he got outside the man appeared to put the flowers he had brought into the trash.

After hearing the door close from the outside, Sofia turned her head back and saw tears filling her mouth. The girl started sobbing and before long the mother came but the woman was alone and did not bring Jessica as she promised to bring them together.

"Darling, are you all right? I met Aril outside, did he do anything to you? why are you crying, baby ?" he said in a hurry to get close to his daughter to calm her down, then carried her into his arms.

"Can I go back to the farm again? I don't want to be here." beg Sofia later.

"Plantation? no dear, your place is not there but in your house the house of all of us." said Anne, of course he wouldn't let his daughter go back to the estate and live with Margaret's slightly mentally ill sister.

"I want to go home now." please Sofia again.

"Alright, Mommy talked to the doctor first." persuaded Anne then immediately see the doctor who treated her daughter while in the hospital.

After negotiating for various reasons Sofia was finally allowed to go home and it made Anne very happy that she was finally able to bring her daughter back to her home.

"Jessica can't pick you up because she's in college tonight" Anne said as they headed home.

"Hm." Sofia just nodded her head in response to her mother's words.

Moments later the car carrying them seems to stop at an unusually large mansion, before Sofia can only stare at him from the outside when she becomes a newspaper courier. But now he is even one of its inhabitants.

The girl seemed to spread her gaze when she just set foot inside the mansion, seen some photos on the wall including photos of her when she was a child.

"Later to make another family photo, baby." said Anne as her daughter stared at a family photo without her.

"Come to your room !!" Anne immediately took the girl up to her room, a room she had prepared beforehand.

"If you don't like it you can redecorate it" Anne said after they entered a room dominated by white and blue, it was, because it was the girl's favorite color when she was a child.

"I like the color." Sofia chimps.

"All right, rest, baby." Anne is seen leading the girl to her bed, after which she pulls a blanket to cover her body.

Now Sofia was alone in her spacious room with a dimly visible light, then the girl immediately closed her eyes which had felt very heavy because of the effects of the drug she had consumed before.

As her consciousness began to vanish, Sofia suddenly felt a kiss on her forehead. "Good sleep baby, sleep well. You deserve the best place here, Daddy loves you so much. Please forgive Daddy's actions all this time." said James softly, then again kissed his daughter's forehead. Fix the blanket and leave the room.

After the door was closed again from outside Sofia seemed to open her eyes, her eyes were flat staring at the ceiling of her room. Then the girl went back to sleep.

The next day....

"Good morning ?" greet Sofia as she saw some of her servants were preparing breakfast.

"Good morning young lady." they said.

"Can I help you ?" sofia said as she moved closer.

"No need miss, we can do it ourselves. It's better that young lady wait at the dinner table." said one of the waiters there.

"But I want to help you guys and I don't like protesting." firmly Sofia then joined the servants and they could only resign if the great mistress would scold him later for letting her beloved daughter in the kitchen.

Moments later Anne and James were seen arriving at the dinner table, they were immediately shocked to see the scene where the daughter was deftly cooking in the kitchen.

"Darling, what are you doing there ?" admonished Anne, her daughter should just rest in the room or wait at the dinner table until breakfast is done in the morning.

"I'm healthy and I want to make you a special breakfast" Sofia looked at her mother.

"Is there for Daddy too ?" james said by commenting on his smile staring at his daughter, somehow the atmosphere of the house feels warmer and crowded since the presence of the girl.

Sofia looked at her father. "Make it all." he said then returned to prepare the food he was making.

"Thank you" James said, although his daughter was still cold to him but it didn't matter to him. There is still plenty of time to show that affection.

"Good morning." said Jessica suddenly who seemed to have just woken up in her pajamas still attached to her body.

Then his gaze towards Sofia who seemed to be carrying some food plates in her hands.

"Hi, I didn't think we were brothers and what were you doing in the kitchen? that's where the servants are" he said as he looked at his older sister.

"Servants are also human, eat if you don't mind." Sofia said as she placed a plate of salad in front of her sister.

Putting another plate in front of her father, Sofia simply stared at the man without offering him a meal and it didn't matter to James.

"For Mommy and for me" Sofia said after returning with two servings of salad in her hand and then gave it to her mother.

"Thank you, baby." said Anne.

"It must be really good." praised the woman.

"Of course, that's Marco's father's favorite fish salad." said Sofia who immediately made James seem to stop chewing, he said, yet it seemed that the man was trying to be heartened even though at this moment a sense of jealousy had filled his chest cavity.

"Daddy likes it too, thank you dearly." the dream later and it makes Sofia look at him. At first Sofia wanted to see the man annoyed with him calling his adoptive father but the man's reaction was not as expected and slowly Sofia's heart was slightly broken.

"Daddy !!" he murmured inwardly and simultaneously it was suddenly the figure of a man he did not expect to appear before them.

"May I have breakfast here ?" said Aril then without excuse the man threw his body weight in the chair next to Sofia and of course made the girl immediately upset, he said, though he deliberately asked to go home from the hospital sooner so as not to be disturbed by the man but apparently his assumption was wrong.