ISABEL'S POV
I was lying to myself when I said that I didn't want anything to do with Eric. The truth is that I truly loved him I said all those mean things because I did not want to hurt Maggie.
Were we ever strangers? I'm not sure we were. That day I first saw him there was something even then, though I didn't know what. I wonder if there's an element of time that allows us to feel a strong love, like an orange glow bursting over a dark horizon. It was light for our eyes only, something to carry us through this life. It was the dawn of the person I am today, the person I was destined to be.
Truth is I would give up anything in the world for him, I would do anything to keep you safe moreso now that he come to save me from the pits of hell. Though I have told him mean things, deep dow
