CHAPTER FOUR
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Isabella’s eyes fluttered open. It was morning. She closed her eyes as the events of last night began flooding her senses. She sat up, and clutched a hand over her mouth. She looked around her. Her towel was still on the floor. So it was not a dream. She had truly slept with Lukas. Her next line of thought was interrupted when she had a familiar laugh.
Hey I know who that is, she thought. She draped the sheets tighter over her naked body and tottered to the door, she froze. She staggered back and in that she collided with a table. The vase on the table was about to fall off but Isabella stretched her body like a snake and caught it. She ran back to the bed, panting.
Ohmygod she clutched her hand over her mouth. She couldn’t believe her step sister would do this to her. Yes they were always at loggerheads but she didn’t know Ava would go this low.
Then suddenly the Vase was not placed well and it crashed to the floor. Isabella flinched, and ducked her head under the pillow. The door to the room was open.
“Lukas she’s awake” Ava walked into the room with a half-smile. “Well well well isn’t it little miss hard to get”
“Ava what are you doing here!” Isabella said. Her face was the exact color of a fire truck. Letting her step sister, an enemy, see her in her most vulnerable state, had to be the most embarrassing thing in her life. Her voice came out different than she had expected. She had seen her kissing Lukas but the pain in her heart had made it hard for her to process all this. She didn’t know what was actually going on.
Lukas walked in and planted a deep kiss on Ava’s lips and she chuckled. “You should have seen her last night,” Lukas said with a smug expression.
“I know,” said Ava with a wicked laugh. “She is daddy’s little angel but she had never had a man touch her down there”
Isabella wanted to tell them she was no virgin but she had other important things to say.
She was too stunned to speak. She watched as Lukas’s hand snaked around Ava’s waist as he pulled her in for another kiss.
“Ava what did you do?” Isabella swallowed. Tears were welling up in her eyes.
“Aww she’s about to cry” Ava laughed. “Well Isabella, we used you to get closer. You know dad would never allow me to marry Lukas because he is a rival. So he sat down and thought about a plan” she leaned in for yet another kiss. “And it was the most perfect s**t ever” they laughed. Betrayal is far too nice a word, to explain how Isabella felt. She was hurt beyond words.
“I’m calling my lawyer, I can’t stay in this s**t” she threatened.
“Did you tell her?” Ava asked and Lukas smirked. “No”
“Tell me what” Isabella said. This time her voice was a bit gruff. She had blinked back her tears. She was never going to give them the satisfaction of watching her cry.
“This marriage stands till I say I don’t” Lukas deadpanned.
“And also you signed an NDA. You can’t tell anyone”
Oh no. not an NDA.
They laughed and began kissing again. Isabella mustered all the strength in her, she sprang up from the bed and ran out of the room, fighting back her tears. She broke down in the hallway.
“In here” a hand grabbed her and pulled her into a room. It was a maid. She looked like she was in her middle fifties. Isabella roughly wiped the tears off her face.
“Wait here” she went to the wardrobe and took out a robe.
“Thank you” Isabella coughed. She was beginning to choke on her tears. Isabella sat on the bed. She clutched the robe to her chest and wept. Shoulder heaving, mucus running tears. In just one day, her life had been turned upside down.
“I’m sorry that happened to you” the maid handed her some tissues.
“Thanks” Isabella whispered as she tried to wipe her tears. Shewas grateful that the maid did not try to talk to her or ask any question. And so she stayed like that till she was stolen away by sleep. And in her dreams, she got the little peace that she so much craved. All though it was for a short time.
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Isabella woke up to an excruciating headache that afternoon. There was no one in the room either. She walked to the bathroom and washed her face. Her eyes were the size of watermelons. When she got back, there was some fresh clothes on the bed. They looked just like hers. Upon checking, they were really hers. She smiled. The maid was really kind, she thought to herself.
She dashed into the shower, took a quick bath and wore the clothes. She saw some Advil at the bedside but the jar of water was empty. She walked downstairs and grabbed some water. While she was drinking the water, she had her sister smirk at her from across the room. She looked away. She wasn’t ready to deal with her now.
Just then her phone began to ring. It was Leah, her best friend. She picked immediately. She was dying to have someone to pour her heart out to.
“Babe you won’t believe what just happened” she sniffed as she walked outside.
“Isa I need to tell you something but first, promise me you wouldn’t freak out?” Leah said. Isabella stood still. Did anything happen to her dad? Did the mafia guys come back?
“Okay” Isabella replied with a racing heart.
“The Ferras Company is not doing well in the stock market”
“What?” Isabella yelled.
“Calm down,” Leah said. The rest of the things Leah said didn’t make any sense to Isabella. Lukas had given her father the money. What was wrong?
“Wait I’m coming” Isabella said. Leah was trying to say some other thing but Isabella had hung up. Isabella sprinted to her bag, the maids had taken everything to the other room. Shegrabbed her keys and ran to her car. Immediately she sped off.
Unknown to Isabella, there was an accident on the highway, and this would cause her to use the other road. The other side was dangerous and the road was very wet. Isabella would try to drive as fast as possible but then, when she got a call from Leah, she was about picking, then she heard the horn from the incoming vehicle in front of her. She dropped her phone and swerved to the next lane but her car was immediately shoved across the road. The car veered off the road.
She tried to stop the car but then she had lost control of the brakes. She rammed the car to a tree and hit her head and face on the windscreen and blacked out.
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