Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Billionaire's Maltreated Wife: Reclaimed From the Ashes: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

Isadora's POVI mistook being wanted for being loved. It's an easy mistake when you've never had either.’_________________________________________“Argh….please stop Roman.”Glass shattered against the wall just inches from my head, pieces of it splashed on my body.Roman didn't stop..not at all. Gripping more glass cups, the more I tried to run the more they piece into my skin.“Please, I don't know what you're talking about…”“Who the fuck did you have coffee with…”“He's just a collaborator, Roman, I swear.” covered in tears and sweat I was desperate to fly from here. I threw my hands over my head, covering my face instinctively. "Don't lie to me." His voice was too calm. That was always the scariest part. Not the shouting. The calm. He rolled up his sleeves slowly, deliberately, like a man with all the time in the world.He stepped closer, I immediately moved back. It was a hustle but I did, having no choice I couldn't even afford to die. I have a son. He came closer just moment

Isadora's POVSqueezing my hands into a tight fist, the only thing I felt right now was disgust and irritation. No, I didn't see that coming. My fate, my fucking life was on Alice. Grabbing my bag I stormed out of the courtroom, ignoring whatever came next, the constant screaming of my name. I was stupid, I have been stupid to have thought it was going to be an easy pizzy shit to leave the fucking bastard.I slammed my legs in the pedals the moment I got to the car.My mind was a whirlwind, but somehow the memories of the past haunted me. That night, five years ago. A hotel bar. A stranger with dark eyes who looked at me like I was something worth seeing. One night I had never been able to explain or erase or stop thinking about.My mind was somewhere else entirely, the moment at the hospital waiting room where I had sat alone and stared at a pregnancy test and understood for the first time what it meant to be completely on your own.My hands were shaking so badly. Tears streaming do

Isadora's POVI stared at the ceiling for a long time after everyone left. The room smelled like antiseptic and bad decisions.‘Douglas.’ The same blood. The same name. The man I had spent five years searching for was the stepbrother of the man who had spent five years destroying me.I pressed my hands over my face and let the sob come. Ugly and raw and completely beyond caring who heard it.The door suddenly opened. "GET OUT." My voice cracked like a whip. "I swear to God Roman if you take one more step into this room I will…""Okay wow." Mara's voice."Good morning to you too."I dropped my hands.She stood in the doorway, hair pulled back, holding two cups of terrible hospital coffee and looking at me like I had personally offended her by almost dying."You scared me like that and you're in here yelling at doors." She crossed the room and pressed one cup into my hands. "Did Roman come in here?"I didn't answer.Her eyes narrowed. "Dora.""He came." My voice was hollow."Sorry love."