“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

he approached me and helped me take away Isabel’s resources, but I wasn’t expecting Isabel to have someone even more powerful backing her. It did not take long before she reclaimed everything

feelings for Isabel

figure out why Roland even approached her if he had his eyes on Isabel since the beginning. One way or

with a frown, “Isabel

“She’s a very popular

me her

query, her picture was the first to pop up on

recognized Isabel’s face, her heart

it was

had barged into her engagement ceremony with Decker five years ago and later got

remembered how she saw the same woman showing up online after that, and that was how she found out that this

did not think much of it at the time because she assumed that Decker had cut off all

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

knew that Decker had been seeing countless other women in

Isabella. "Are you sure

May God strike me down

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