Blizzard, First Love and a Wife Who Finally Snaps novel Chapter 156

She decided not to read them all and just opened the chat to reply: 【I’m fine. I’m abroad for some business. Don’t pay any attention to the online stuff, Amanda. Just focus on your work, live your life, and trust me.】

Amanda: 【As long as you’re okay, that’s all that matters. You scared me! Of course I trust you.】

That night, Adrian didn’t come back.

Isabel didn’t care. She slept soundly.

When she woke up and was about to order breakfast, she saw Adrian in the living room.

He was still wearing the same suit from the reception.

It was noticeably wrinkled, his hair was a mess, and he looked somewhat disheveled.

Isabel gave him a single glance before heading off to wash up and then eat her breakfast.

Adrian’s eyes followed her, but in the end, she never asked him a single question.

He got up, walked to the dining table, and sat down across from her. “Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Isabel’s mouth was full. Even if it hadn’t been, she had no intention of speaking.

“You’ve changed.”

Isabel found that laughable.

Did he mean because she was no longer his doormat?

Men were truly unbelievable.

She remained silent.

Adrian, as if possessed, continued to speak to her at length.

“Aren’t you going to ask where I was last night?”

“This isn’t the first time I’ve been cold to you, nor is it the first day I’ve known Selena. Why didn’t you act out before, but you’re making such a scene now?”

“If you truly wanted a divorce, if you were so determined, then what about all that talk of loving me? Forcing me to marry you with your mother’s heart… wasn’t that all just a pathetic joke?”

Isabel did think it was a joke.

All of it.

Even when he didn’t bring it up, she would occasionally think back and wish she could travel through time to slap some sense into her love-struck former self.

“Mr. Blackwell, first of all, I can love, and I can choose not to love. That is my right.”

“By that same logic, I could find a way to marry you when I loved you, and I can choose to divorce you when I don’t.”

Adrian sneered. “Your love is certainly cheap, if it can vanish in an instant.”

But Adrian was clearly unwilling, yet refused to say so.

As an employee, he knew better than to get involved.

When it came to family matters, an outsider’s interference would only make things messier.

*

Evelyn had received a message from Isabel that they were on their way and timed her wait at the entrance.

The sun was strong, and as Isabel stepped out of the car, she saw Richard holding a parasol over Evelyn’s head.

With his wealth and status, he could have easily installed a large, permanent awning or even set up a temporary cafe corner there.

But he didn’t. He held the parasol himself, a clear sign of how much he cared.

She couldn’t help but think of her conversation with Adrian that morning.

Her suggestion that Adrian liked her had been pure provocation.

Deep down, she knew he would never like her.

She knew what love looked like.

He was just a control freak, bitter that she had forced the marriage and was now forcing the divorce.