Nicholas felt the towel drop from his hand at that beautiful voice. Yes, the sound was so deeply engraved in his mind that he would recognize it any day and anytime but not now. Isabella was not supposed to be speaking, right? And...she just called his name.On the other hand, Isabella was scared. Her happiness at the fact that she could now speak was overcame by the fear that she felt, when she realized that she just yelled Nicholas' name. She was well aware that she was supposed to address him formally, as a slave, albeit private, to her master."You called my name?" Nicholas asked gently, staring straight into her brown eyes."I...uhm, i—""Stop stuttering, Ella. Call my name again," he ordered.Isabella was surprised. Was this a trap or just a simple command? Anyways, she wanted to hear her own voice more so she complied."Ni...cholas. Nicholas," she repeated.Nathaniel nodded, a small smile tugging at the side of his mouth. He straightened himself and stood up straight as if to ge
Joseph's mouth fell wide open from the scene in front of him and as much as he tried to stop himself, he failed, causing that exclamation of surprise to fall out of his lips."OMG!"Hearing that strangely disturbing voice, Nicholas reluctantly pulled away from the kiss in a bid not to embarrass Isabella, but he could not do so as her hands were gripping his collar tightly, stopping him from moving any further from her.A weird happiness sparked up in his heart and he restarted the kiss, using one free hand to wave Joseph away from the room. The latter saw the sign and bolted out of the room immediately without needing a second command. He regretted coming here with such speed that had made him push the door open without knocking first. However, the more he thought about it, the more he realized he was not at fault. He received a call from Isabella which was disconnected almost immediately and his worried self had thought she called him because something was wrong with her. Who knew he
Isabella woke up to the sound of her phone ringing, the next morning. With barely opened eyes, she reached for the phone and picked the call."Hello?" she said politely, thinking it was Joseph who was calling her. Angela would not call her that early, she presumed."Isabella! You have to get up and come downstairs right now. Will you need my help to get ready?!"At the sudden order from her friend, Isabella's eyes flew open. Slowly, she rose to sit up on the bed as the drowsiness had disappeared from her eyes."What's wrong? Did you offend someone or break something?" she asked. There was no other reason she could think of that would make her friend speak to her with such urgency and fear in her voice. Though she was still finding it hard to get used to it, her life here was much easier than it was at the Yates estate and she was not required to wake up this early."Angela?" Isabella called again, as her friend suddenly went silent on the other side."Bella, your parents are here. The
Nicholas' brows were raised when he dropped the call. All his thoughts were centered on the call with Isabella just now. When he told her he sent her parents, she had gone quiet. Was it out of happiness or did she hate what he did?As he was thinking about that, his thoughts transcended over to when the call just connected and she called Joseph's name. He looked around the dimly lit room he was in, where countless other men wearing the same color of clothes as he was, were loitering around."David, who else are we expecting?" he asked, turning to face his assistant."Roman, Stanley and Shane," David replied immediately."By how many minutes have they been late?""Four, Sir," David answered, raising up three fingers of his hand in the air.Nicholas nodded slightly, his face void of any form of emotions as he walked back to his seat at one end of the room. David followed after him while the men who were loitering around the room were quick to gather around him."Joshua," Nicholas called
Isabella watched her younger sister walk across the garden until she came to stand before her, a spring in her footsteps that showed her excitement."Do you need something, Alice?" Isabella asked. As one of the people who knew Alicia best, Isabella knew the two of them had nothing in common even though they were sisters, and that meant there was no reason for Alicia to come find her except she needed her to do something.Alicia was the beautiful, intelligent and talented daughter of the Yates while Isabella was well...the direct opposite."Do I look like I need something? I simply missed you, Bella! Ever since you got married and came here, I've been so lonely back at the estate," Alicia lamented, wearing a sad smile.Isabella was shocked, and it was all she could do not to ask Alicia if she was talking about another sister and not her. Why? Isabella could not remember ever keeping Alicia company before she came here, so how come her sister was suddenly lonely after she left. She shar
She failed to notice the small frown that formed on Marcus' face when he saw her excitement. His master's wife was acting like this was the very first time she was seeing an elevator."Would you need me to follow you up?" he asked, shaking his head to clear off all strange thoughts."I can go myself."Isabella wasted no time in wheeling herself over to the elevator doors but contrary to what she expected, the doors didn't open on its own when she got there.'Aren't they supposed to open on their own?' she muttered inwardly, a frown forming on her face. She was sure that Marcus was beginning to stare at her with confusion in his eyes, by now.And she was right. The old butler who was supposed to have left the living room had stayed behind just to watch Isabella until she got in the elevator, but was not sure what she was still doing staying in front of the elevator without pressing the button."Is everything alright, Mrs Hunt?" he asked carefully so as not to annoy her. To the best of h
Just like the previous day, Isabella woke up when it was barely dawn, to the sound of her phone ringing. With drowsy eyes, she searched the bed with her hand and found the phone in less than ten seconds.Bringing it up to her face to see who it was that was calling so early, she jolted up from the bed with a start when she saw the familiar characters which she memorized the previous day.It was Nicholas.However, as she was about to pick up the call, her door opened and Angela's head peeped in."Come down immediately, Bella. Master and Mrs Yates are annoyed that you aren't there yet!" she informed Isabella, fear evident in her voice.Isabella's eyes moved from the door to the phone in her hand as she gauged which of her two masters to obey first. Since her parents were nearer and relatively more evil than Nicholas, she decided to reply them first. She could handle Nicholas later and prepare herself for his anger.With Angela's help, she got ready as quickly as she could and pulled he
Nicholas brows furrowed in confusion as he maintained eye contact with Joshua."What's the probability that you made a mistake?" he asked.Having expected that he would be asked that, Joshua wasted no time in answering, "Zero. We made several cross checks and arrived at the same conclusion. We just can't tell who exactly it was."Nicholas gave a curt nod and Joshua took it as his cue to leave. David took the latter's position, waiting for instructions from Nicholas."Place a call to Joseph."Without asking questions, David did as instructed and dialled Joseph's number. The call was connected immediately."Any problem?" Joseph's worried voice came through the call. Neither Nicholas nor the other men on the trip with him would call except there was an urgent situation that needed a doctor."There is one on your side. How's Isabella?" Nicholas took the phone from David, and asked."Fine, doing pretty well if I may elaborate. What's the problem on my side?""The one who poisoned her is cu