Chapter 10 - Papers

Isabella once again stared at him in disbelief, he had the audacity to assume that she could be threatened into a marriage.

‘For God’s sake, is this man really serious?’ She could not stop her nervous blinking.

She opened her mouth to speak out her outraged mind, but she bit her lower lip instead, deciding that the conversation should end there.

It was not even worth wasting a breath, the minute she would walk out of there, she planned to avoid the ravishing man for the rest of her life.

‘What person with a sane brain would ever believe that a marriage could be crafted on insults, accusations or intimidation? Is he some kind of Italian Don from some distant past where women were mere objects at a man’s disposal, where marriages relied on some sort of vendetta?’

Though they met a few hours ago, he undeniably prevailed in invading her mind and her soul. She shed tears for reasons she could not completely identify, or maybe she just chose not to dig further into her heart.

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