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?”

the reason he even bothered to come to Westchester. The problem is Isabel did not reciprocate his feelings and

Isabel’s resources, but I wasn’t expecting Isabel to have someone even more powerful backing her. It did not take

invested in that show Isabel is filming right now. I am sure he has feelings for Isabel because he just showed me a lot of attitude after

why Roland even approached her if he had his eyes on Isabel since the beginning. One way or another, she was sure that he had been gunning

with a frown, “Isabel Ross?”

a very popular

me

for her phone and searched for Isabel’s picture online. Upon entering Isabel’s name in the query, her

Clarice recognized Isabel’s

it was

with Decker five years ago and later got

online after that, and that was how

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

five years, Decker would make the lengthy trip to Westchester to find

She knew that Decker had been seeing countless other women in this span, but why was it this particular woman that he remained obsessed with?

to Isabella. "Are you sure this is the woman that Decker is

swore adamantly, “Absolutely certain. May God strike