Isabella's POVIf you think I slept after Xander just told me that he is in love with me, then you are very mistaken. Sleep became a stranger to me, and even though I tried my best to close my eyes, begging for the darkness to take me, it was just impossible because all I could hear was Xander's voice saying those words to me.'' Come on Isabella, put yourself together, this might be a drunken mistake. I am sure he didn't mean any of what he was saying,'' I said to myself, but the voices in my head just laughed at me.'' Oh Isabella, stop deserving yourself, you know very well that it is only in a drunken state that a man speaks the truth,'' my subconscious taunted me with its words.'' You know nothing,'' I scolded the voices in my head as I continued to force myself to sleep, but I couldn't, so I stayed awake until the sun rose in the sky.Xander's words still hunted my very being, as I tried to make sense of it all, I still couldn't wrap my head around the fact that the most danger

Isabella's POV  Manny and I drove in complete silence, so I just drifted my focus to the window as I began to count the trees, houses, and people that passed by.  ''Okay, are you not going to say a word to me,'' Manny let out after a few minutes.  '' I don't do small talk,'' I said, and Manny scoffed.  '' Humour me, Just say something because this silence is killing me,'' Manny let out, but I still didn't say a word to him, because honestly, I didn't know what to say.  '' Okay, tell me about yourself, Isabella,'' Manny let out as he threw a glance or two in my direction.  '

Isabella's POV When Manny walked up to us, the look in Xander's eyes could definitely kill a horse. I don't know what was going on in Xander's mind but I was eager to know, because he didn't look pleased that Manny was here with me. '' Oh hi Draco, I didn't know that she was with you,'' Manny let out with respect laced in his voice, but Xander didn't respond. He just continued to look at Manny as if he was going to kill him at any moment. Manny shifted his weight nervously from one leg to the other, as his gaze drifted from Xander, then back to me. '' How could you bring her to a place like this,'' Xander let out and Manny looked so confused. '' Don't you know that it is not safe here for her?'' Xander

 Isabella's POV  I shivered as I tried to hold onto Manny's gaze, but it was just impossible because I stupidly went to kiss him and totally complicated our relationship. So now that I am standing so close to him, I am shivering like a little schoolgirl not even knowing what to say. ” I am not avoiding you," I whispered and Manny rolled his eyes. “ Well, 3 days hiding in your room is totally saying a different thing to me," Manny let out with a smirk on his face. “ Fine you are. Right, I am avoiding you," I stated as I squared my shoulders, looking up at him. “ Ouch, that hurts my feelings, but why does it seem like it has anything to do with the fact that you kissed me," Manny said. “ Well, as I recall, you kissed me back, and anyway, that kiss was a drunken mistake, an

Xander's POVI looked at my cousin, waiting for him to answer my questions, but he just looked at me, not saying a word to me.And his silence was slowly getting on my nerves, as I kept on asking myself if Xavier was hiding something from me.'' Come on son, you don't think your cousin, your right-hand man, would steal from you,'' My father said, shaking his head.'' I don't know father, it is left to Xavier to prove me wrong,'' I let out as I continued to stare at Xavier.Xavier was quiet for a while and still didn't know why, and honestly, I couldn't take it anymore.'' What is this Xavier, why are you not saying anything,'' I yelled.'' What do you want me to say, when you have already made up your mind that I am stealing from you,'' Xavier let out.'' So you are not going to say anything to defend yourself, Xavier,'' I said.'' What can I say in my defense, when my cousin, my own family, has