Chapter 40 - Heartbreak

Edmund left soon after they had breakfast. Isabella was not only feeling disappointed, she was suffering a heartbreak.

She knew they could not have been more different from the very beginning, and she was aware that sooner or later they were bound to follow their own separate paths, yet she was still unprepared for the painful sensation his words triggered in her body.

‘Was this what fate had in store for me? To encounter the man of my dreams, have him and then lose him in a matter of days?’

Not even for a split second did she regret meeting him, or for what it mattered, signing that contract, but it was clear for her that he did not think the same.

There were too many things left unsaid between the two of them, and now it was too late to talk, he decided to send her away.

It troubled her to the bones that after having such an exquisite night, he was so keen to get rid of her without a proper conversation. She had burned for him, and he claimed her as his own, tending to her needs o