Chapter 1136
Chapter 1135:
Unfortunately, the suppressant medication had come with terrible, life-altering side effects. Not only had it slowly destroyed Sophie’s fertility, but her body had also begun developing a dangerous tolerance to the medication’s effects. When the Psychephrenia episodes did break through, they were far more violent and difficult to control.
The episodes became even more uncontrollable than they had been before treatment. Eventually, even taking the medication exactly on schedule could no longer prevent the illness from taking over Sophie’s mind, and the horrifying episodes began occurring more and more frequently.
Every time Sophie lost her grip on reality, Rita, Sally, and Victor remained at her side throughout the ordeal, desperately trying to calm her and keep her safe. Each episode felt like fighting through a nightmarish battle that left everyone emotionally and physically drained. During one especially severe episode, Sophie became completely delusional and out of control, lashing out at everything and everyone around her. She grabbed a kitchen knife and began cutting her own flesh, and in her frenzy she even stabbed both Rita and Sally.
Although Rita and Sally fully understood that the illness—not Sophie herself—had driven those actions, and they never blamed her, Sophie was devastated by guilt and self-hatred once she finally regained her senses and realized what she had done.
Rita had already been pushing herself to the breaking point, constantly running and hiding from assassins sent by both Maxine and Miguel, who wanted to capture her. On top of that, she had been working around the clock trying to develop a permanent cure for Psychephrenia while caring for Sophie during her increasingly frequent episodes.
That stabbing incident had nearly ended Rita’s life. The blade plunged deep into her body, missing her heart by less than an inch, and it took her many long, painful months to recover.
Tormented by the possibility of hurting someone she loved again, Sophie spent weeks in agonizing inner debate before making a heartbreaking decision: she would leave. She chose to disappear to a remote, isolated place where she could quietly fade from the world and ensure she could never hurt another living soul. Once she was certain Rita had recovered enough to survive without her care, Sophie left behind a simple farewell letter and vanished into the night.
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Victor remained loyal and stayed by Sophie’s side through everything. After her departure, they never encountered Rita or Sally again and had no information about where the two women might have gone.
Hearing this part of the story, Elliana felt her heart sink with crushing disappointment. She had been desperately hoping that Victor would bring some news about her mother’s current location, but now that slim hope had evaporated once again.
Victor continued telling Sophie’s tragic story, his voice heavy with old grief. After parting ways with Rita and Sally, Sophie had traveled to a desolate stretch of coastline. It was there, sitting alone on the empty beach, that she had written the letter Cole was now holding in his hands. She had instructed Victor to carry it back to Ublento and inform her family of her death. She had completely lost her desire to continue living. Her plan was to walk straight into the ocean’s depths and let the cold water become her permanent grave. Even though she had loved Jarrett with every fiber of her being, she couldn’t force herself to write him even a single word of goodbye. Her deepest wish was that he would hate her memory—hate her enough to finally let go, find a healthy woman who could make him happy and build the beautiful life he deserved. She felt nothing but overwhelming guilt for all the years she believed she had stolen from him, holding him back from true happiness.