The Mafia King's Obsession

Letting Go

ISABELLA's POV

White...the color I came to dislike years ago when my dad died, the color that represented hospitals, the color that coated the surrounding walls I was staring at. I hate this. Why am I here? Oh, I remember, Lucas' birthday, the divorce papers, I fell and found out Jackson and Sandra might really hate me enough to want me dead.

Oh my God! Why is my life like this? How did it get this bad? Oh I know, my dad remarried after my mum died.

My stepmother hated the s**t out of me but didn't make it obvious until my dad died. Living in the same house with her and her daughters was hell but I survived until I became an adult and went to law school even when my stepmother didn't want me in school.

Then one day, I helped a woman who had passed out on the road to the hospital. She was Martha Lucas' mum, and she kept on saying I had the perfect heart for her son, and I was exactly what he needed.

I met Lucas and liked him immediately, but he wasn't really interested, but it didn't matter, I really liked him, and I would also get to leave the hellhole I was in. Now look where that got me.

My phone rang beside me and I paused just as I grabbed it, the divorce papers were on the table with a pen next to it, they really did want me out of their family. It was Lucas calling and I took in a deep breath to steady my voice.

"Hello"

"Good you're awake, please sign the divorce papers."

"What? Lucas, I almost died and all you care about is leaving me, and your mum was the one to deliver the papers. Do you hate me that much? Did our three years of marriage mean nothing to you?", I didn't plan on saying much, but I did .

" Isabella, your fall was just you being dramatic, so I wouldn't leave you. But it won't work, sign the papers. I don't care about you, I don't love you, and you knew that, but you just held on like the pathetic and affection starved woman that you are. Your things are with the security guard, get them", he hung up.

My tears spilled. I should not have hoped he would love me. I knew it, but I just hoped he would. Now I'm all alone again. I took the divorce papers and signed them. This was it.

There was a knock and a pretty nurse let herself in.

"Oh, you're awake. You are not really injured, you just hit your head pretty hard, but you're good as new now", she said with a warm smile.

" Oh...ehm okay".

"Now, your family did not settle the bills.... "

" What?" Lucas didn't pay the bills? He really hates me...but why?

I'll think of that later. How do I pay the bills? I did not work all through my marriage because Lucas said it was not necessary, and I had nothing to my name!

The nurse excused herself when I was not responding and a few minutes later there was another knock and an older man came in. He should be in his early fifties, but he took care of himself so well you won't even know it. He is in a tailored suit and there are a few gray hairs on his head...

" Hello Isabella, my name is Andrew Williams. I was your father's lawyer".

He interrupted my assessment of him, but that's not important right now. My father's lawyer? Did my father owe some people money? Omg, I'm f****d!