Chapter 16

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