Chapter 20 - The Contract

The images from earlier flashed before Isabella’s eyes, and breathing normally became out of the question as she remembered that woman with her arms wrapped around Edmund. That memory acted like a dagger stabbing her heart multiple times.

Moreover, after being stabbed, the foolish organ was trampled on and left to bleed. That was how dampen her spirit was, that was how much pain the scene that unfolded before her eyes inflicted on her.

“I don’t know why she’s here again, but she destroyed him. She ruined him. It took him years to recover, and he turned into a cold, bitter, emotionless person, a stone. My uncle would have been proud.” Moira started to speak again with undeniable resentment in her voice.

‘I might have opened a wound, she will not finish until she gets everything out of her system.’

As for Isabella, that was undeniably a troubling indication of how deep his love for that woman was, an affection that was probably still present in his heart, a feeling so intense would have