ISABELLE

Chapter 25

Nathan's POV

What will you feel when a woman had sacrificed herself and dodged two bullets for you.

According to Adam, he has said that she must have loved me very much. So much that she is willing to die for me.

For all these years that I had Isabelle, I didn't treat her good. For the first year, I treated her like shit. Absolute shit. I kept telling myself that she was just a tool to me. Someone who I can vent my anger and stress at and also someone that can produce an heir for me. She was just a woman whom I had bought using money. Nothing else.

Having her wasn't my choice. I didn't want to have any commitments. I do not need a woman by my side. No woman will survive long enough in this environment I am trapped in. I knew it since young. My mother was an example. This was an evil place where no one would like to be in.

Last of all, I didn't want my children to follow my footsteps. So why having a child?

I was fine alone. I am used to it. I didn't need anyone by my side. I like to keep things to myself.

Until she appeared.

She's supposed to mean nothing to me.

Supposed to.

I couldn't believe my ears when Isabelle had declared her love for me before she had lost conscious. I hadn't expected her to say these three words. No one has ever said these three words to me before. No one.

Not even my mother.

I didn't know what love was before Isabelle came to my life. I do not know how and I didn't bother to understand it as well. I had always believed that these three words are superficial until I heard it myself from Isabelle.

She meant what she had said. No one will lie when you know you are dying.

She was dying.

In my arms.

I heard a loud thud behind me when I took control of the gun Charles was holding a moment ago. When I had turned around, I saw Isabelle lying on the floor. She looks to be in a great pain. Her beautiful yellow dress was slowing turning red. That was when I had realised that she has gotten hit.

She had prevented me from getting hurt. What was she thinking when she pushes me away?

Why did she do that?

I ran to her and held her in my arms. I looked at her beautiful face. She is still the same girl that I had laid my eyes on the very first time. I do not know why, but her face had imprinted in my brain ever since I had saw her pictures on the file Quinton had sent me a few years back. My brain couldn't process any other girls from then on.

I placed my hand on the spot where the bullets had hit her. She was wincing in pain. I know how's the pain was like. Throughout so many years in the organisation, I had many scars on my body. I know how painful it was. My only hope was that she will be brave enough to endure this pain. I hope she is strong enough to stay by my side. I hope she won't leave me like so many people had left me all these years.

I need her to be strong for me. She had to.

She is slowly losing consciousness after she had told me she loves me. I was stunned for a moment. This was the first time these three words were directed at me. I cannot lose her. I cannot afford to.

I told myself that I cannot let her leave me. I will not allow that. I have to be fast and get her to Adam as soon as possible. Carrying her up, I rushed to my Ferrari. I kept begging her to stay awake. I hadn't begged anyone in my life before. She was the first. I almost went mad when she refused to listen to my instructions. I know she was trying damn hard to keep her eyes open.