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Chapter 179: Miserable
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2026-07-28 23:47:33
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SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 181: Gone Before Morning
ISABELLA'S POVThe cold breeze woke me before anything else did.My eyes opened to the gray light that comes right before a sunrise decides whether it's actually going to happen. For a second I didn't know where I was. Then I felt a blanket bed tangled around my legs and felt the solid warmth of an arm draped over my waist, then it all came rushing back at once.The lake. **I KISSED HIM! I FUCKING KISSED HIM!**I lay there very still, staring at the pale sky through the branches above us, listening to Ethan breathe slowly and even against my back. His hand had found mine sometime in the night and our fingers were still loosely laced together, like even asleep some part of him hadn't wanted to let go.That should have felt nice. It did feel nice, which was exactly the problem.I carefully eased his arm off me an inch at a time, holding my breath every time he moved, until I finally slid free of the blanket into air cold enough to make my skin prickle. I found my clothes in a soft pile
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 180: Soft
ISABELLA’S POVMusic Recommended: Better– Khalid The kiss deepened without either of us forcing it. His mouth moved against mine slow and careful, like he was still making sure I meant it. My fingers curled into the front of his jacket and pulled him closer until there was no space left between us. The cold night air brushed my cheeks but everything else felt warm.He drew back just enough to look at me. His eyes searched mine in the dark.“Tell me if you want to stop,” he said quietly.“I don’t want to stop.”His hand slid to the side of my neck, his thumb brushing the edge of my jaw as he kissed me again. This time it was slower, deeper. I opened for him and felt the soft sound he made against my lips. It went straight through me.We stayed like that for a long time, kissing until my lips felt swollen and my breath came short. When his hand moved under the hem of my jeans, his fingers spreading warmth across the bare skin of my waist, I shivered but not from cold. From how careful
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 179: Miserable
ETHAN'S POVIt’s been three weeks of forcing myself to eat food that turned to sawdust in my mouth. Three weeks of lying awake staring at the ceiling instead of sleeping, replaying the sound of her voice cracking apart on that until I knew every syllable of it by heart.I kept coming back to her face when she told me about Dominic. Not the anger in it, though there was plenty of that. It was the sadness underneath. I'd stood there and watched her hand me the worst parts of herself like she expected me to flinch away from them, and all I'd wanted to do was pull her close and tell her none of it changed a single thing about how I felt.But I didn't get the chance. She'd asked me to drive her home, and I had, because that's what she needed even if it wasn't what either of us wanted.I told myself giving her space was the right call. My staff later noticed my behavior was off. My oldest friend asked twice if something was wrong with me and I lied both times.The truth was simple enough.
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 178: No More hiding
ISABELLA'S POV“Isabella, you are fine!” I said to myself sternly while looking at the mirror. It’s been three weeks since the dinner with Ethan and I always said that to myself like a ritual every morning to convince myself otherwise. I was always at the bakery even before the sun was up as the bakery had a rhythm, one that didn't leave room for me to think. Dough needed kneading, ovens needed to be watched, needed to keep a smile for customers and I was good at smiling, always had been, even when it cost me something underneath.I filled the rest of my hours the same careful way. I took long runs before the shop opened and longer ones after it closed, my legs burned in a way that felt almost like relief. If my body hurt enough, my mind stayed quiet. That was the theory, anyway.It didn't always work though.Some nights, lying on my bed, I'd hear his voice again. *I like you, Izzy. Not the friend kind.* And then my own voice right after, cutting him down before he could get any cl
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 177: Miles Away
ETHAN'S POVI keep going back to the exact second before I said it.Isabella was laughing at something I'd said about the brewery, her whole face open in a way I'd been chasing since the day I ran into her on that jogging path. I remember thinking, right then, that I had never wanted anything as badly as I wanted to keep being the reason she laughed like that. That thought. That was the reason I said it. "Izzy, I need to say something." I set the glass down as this was going to be serious. “Oh, what is it?” “I have been keeping this for quite sometime now and I think it's best you know. Not pressuring into anything though.. I just.. it's right for you to know that.. Izzyyyy I like you. This is way past friends. I have for a long time now, longer than I probably should admit."I had been carrying the words for weeks. They finally came out quiet and careful. Wasn't so hard was it? At least that was what I thought. Her face changed the second the words left my mouth. The soft warmth
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 176: What I Never Wanted You to Know
ISABELLA'S POVMUSIC RECOMMENDATION (Bye- Instrumental by Altare)The restaurant sat on a bluff outside town, all warm light and dark wood. Ethan was a total gentleman. holding the door for me and all that. When the hostess led us to a table by the window, my breath caught for a second at the view. The valley stretched out below us, string lights strung along the patio outside, the last of the evening sun turning everything gold."This is too much," I said, sliding into the booth across from him."Nothing's too much for the woman who just opened her own bakery." He said it easy, like it was simple fact, and I warmed up at the certainty in his voice.I ordered wine and something simple to pair with it because my stomach already felt tight. He looked at ease across from me, sleeves rolled, and smiled easy. “Thank Heavens today was a success. I was anxious thinking no one will come.”“I would have come," he said quietly. "Every day. Just to eat your muffins and bother you.""I know you
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