Ryan repeated his question once again, "What are you afraid of Issabelle? Why did you not tell Cathy that we had loved each other so much? How she was conceived, because of the love that we had for each other? How, during our lovemaking, you would cry with pleasure and ecstasy? How much you had wanted me? You should have balanced the hatred that you had pumped into her head, also with the knowledge of love, that we had once shared with one another. It is good for her, that Cathy has not harbored only hatred in her mind. She would otherwise have developed a Psychological disturbance in herself. Otherwise, she would never have trusted any man, not even Steven, in her life after that."
Issabelle was pierced with the pain that she heard in Ryan's voice. She told Ryan that, whatever was essent
