Unscentable

Chapter 28 - Unscentable

Izzy POV

Izzy woke up to half a dozen missed calls from her father, and groaned annoyingly as she saw there were 3 calls from an unknown number on herphone's display. Those three calls coincided with her father’s. It was also a number with Maine’s prefix.

She had actually switched off her phone after leaving the family estate, had known that her father would be calling her, to either hound her about Phillip, or perhaps now after what had gone on with Edward, as he’d introduced himself to her father, to find out just what was going on in her life.

Izzy had sighed and stared at the phones message bank service which told her there were currently 9 voice messages to be heard, listened to them in order of receiving them, best to get it all in the right context.

The first voice message was from her father, demanding that she come home immediately and explain herself to him. Just exactly what was going on. Why Phillip had gone to him and told him, that he’d been told she and Edward were in fact getting married in around 9 weeks' time.

Izzy had stared right at her phone in complete shock, she’d not said that, had told her father that Edward was nothing to her. But it was obvious he had seen the way the man was all over her. After she’d stopped that fight between Edward and Phillip that had been brewing, she did recall that Edward hadliterally carried her right out of the family ballroom. But where had he gotten the getting married thing? She did not know and 9 weeks, what the hell was that?

The second voice message was also her father. He seemed quite a bit calmer in this message, just wanted her to call him so he could talk to her about Edward, maybe just trying to cajole her into calling him back. The man even half-heartedly apologised for yelling at her in the first message he’d left.

The third message was from an infuriated Phillip, who stated that her behaviour during Joanie’s wedding had been completely unacceptable, that if she kept up this type of behaviour, he would no longer be willing to marry her.
Izzy had nearly laughed out loud, that stupid man still thought he was going to be able to marry her, all because her father said he’d make her. It was never going to happen.

Message four, once again her father “Isobelle sweetheart, I think I may have over reacted somewhat. Edward appears to be an upstanding, wealthy man and I think it is time you brought him home to introduce your fiance to us formally. Your mother also agrees with this. Call me back sweetheart.”

Izzy rolled her eyes at that message, a wealthy, upstanding man, that just meant her father had actually started looking into Edward Patrick of Drake Industries and had seen the man’s bio, and had liked it. Nothing more. As for the ‘your mother also agrees.’ he had likely thrown that in, because she was much closer to her mother than her father was all.

The fifth message Phillip once again, “Isobelle, This Edward character may have money, but he is not aligned to you or your family’s needs. I am the better choice. Call me back so we can sort this out once and for all.” though in the background of that call she could hear his current girlfriend calling out to him, to get off the phone she’d brought him lunch so they could eat together.

Yes, he was a still a pig of a man, she thought. Got a girlfriend and trying to make another girl come home to marry him.

It also sounded to her like Phillip had also looked into Edward, and did not like what he saw, must be either of two things; Edward had more money than Phillip did or he knew that: her father was now leaning towards Edward himself, so he was trying to wrest control of the situation. He wanted her fathers' company and wouldn’t get it without marrying into the family.

Message six once again her father “Isobelle, Edward sounds like a proper gentleman. I managed to speak with him, though only briefly, he was about to board a flight home. Now I understand that the two of you had a bit of a fight. I’m certain it can be worked out. Call the man he wants to apologise to you.”