Blizzard, First Love and a Wife Who Finally Snaps novel Chapter 264

Just now, she had thought Adrian had found her, but it turned out to be Julian.

"You can't even protect your own wife?" Selena sneered. "If it were me, I never would have given Adrian the chance."

"You are quite capable," Julian nodded as if in agreement. "To escape from Adrian's grasp and almost make it to Celvaria... that would have made it very difficult for him to catch you."

Selena wasn't surprised by how well-informed Julian was. He was the king of these waters. He knew every shipping route, every vessel that came and went, even the unregistered ones.

Her own research on him had revealed that even in international waters, what could stop Adrian couldn't stop Julian.

It was no wonder he had been able to snatch her so quietly.

"I have a way to save Isabel, but you can't send me back."

Julian was clearly uninterested. He had been through hell and back recently, wasting so much time, money, and manpower.

His own wounds had just healed, and he'd had to brave the sea to personally retrieve her.

Why go through all that trouble when a simple one-for-one exchange would suffice?

Adrian was a madman.

Every extra second Isabel spent there was a danger.

"Don't even think about it. This is your fate."

"My fate should be for me to decide!" Selena said, growing frantic. "What right do you people have to decide for me?"

"And what right did you have to manipulate Isabel into meeting Adrian? To pretend to be his sister and push her into a forced marriage? Then, years later, you feigned intimacy with Adrian, causing her pain and sorrow, and ruined her precious right hand. What right did you have to trample all over her fate?"

But from the very beginning, that heartless man had just been watching her dance like a clown for his amusement.

He had put on a small act, and it had been enough to make her run in circles.

But she wasn't willing to lose her life just like that.

"Do you really think Adrian will let Isabel go just because you bring me back?"

"Julian, you know as well as I do that it's useless for Isabel to go by the name Isabel Ashford. Even I can see through it, let alone Adrian. As long as they're married, you have no right to take her away."

"Besides, if you could find me, so could Adrian. Why do you think his first move was to capture Isabel?"

Selena's tone turned malicious. "They are husband and wife, after all. And judging by your reaction, you and Isabel haven't been intimate yet, have you? So tell me, what do you think happens when a real husband and wife are together?"