Master Odell’s Secret Ex-wife

“Heh.” Clarice scoffed, “I expected Decker to have better taste than this.”

Decker?

Decker?!

Could this mean that this Miss Houston was…

Isabella suddenly recalled Isabel’s mention of there being a certain fiancee of Decker’s. So, this was the Miss Houston that hailed from Southboro?

Isabella looked at Clarice evasively and explained vainly, “Miss Houston, you must have been mistaken. Nothing has ever happened between me and Mr. Rockwell. A lot of people claim that he has something going on with me, but that’s not the case at all.”

"Oh? How so? Why would you say that’s not the case?”

“It may seem like that on the surface, but he never had the slightest bit of interest in me all along. I swear to you that nothing has happened between me and him since we’ve known each other!” she said with an earnest look in her eyes.

She was telling the truth. Decker had barely touched her despite her best attempts of getting into bed with him.

The look in Clarice’s eyes sharpened. “If he doesn’t care for you, why has he been financing you?”

bothered to come to Westchester. The problem

expecting Isabel to have someone even more powerful backing her. It did not take long before she reclaimed everything I managed

now. I am sure he has feelings for Isabel because he just showed me a lot of attitude after he found out about

Isabella could not figure out why Roland even approached her if he had his eyes on Isabel since the beginning. One way or another, she was

with a frown, “Isabel

“She’s a

me

Isabel’s name in the query, her picture was the first to pop up on the display. She handed the phone to Clarice.

Isabel’s face,

it was her!

was the same woman who had barged into her engagement ceremony with Decker five years ago and later got

and that was how she found out that this woman had become a celebrity.

think much of it at the time because she assumed that Decker had

would have thought that after five years, Decker would make the lengthy trip to Westchester to find

been seeing countless other women in this span, but why was it this particular woman

glowed with spite as she turned to Isabella. "Are you sure this is the woman that Decker

swore adamantly, “Absolutely certain. May God strike me down if