After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan) novel Chapter 1009
It didn’t even matter if Natalie was the real reason Isabella died. Just the fact that she’d pushed Cynthia down the stairs was enough for them to lock her up.
Stephanie never imagined Natalie could be so ruthless, not even able to get along with Cynthia.
After Cynthia married into the Lane family, she always treated Jordan better than her own daughter. Stephanie could understand Cynthia’s thinking. Being a stepmother wasn’t easy. Cynthia had done it so her daughter, Isabella, could grow up safe with the Lane family protecting her. Loving your stepchild more than your own hurts more than anything, but Cynthia felt like she didn’t have a choice.
When Jordan got married, Cynthia treated Natalie well, too. Natalie and Jordan had been close since they were kids, and Cynthia had watched her grow up. No one expected Natalie to call her “mom,” but she was still her elder. Even after Isabella fought with Natalie nonstop for three years and caused all kinds of chaos, even upsetting the Adams family, Cynthia never showed favoritism. As a stepmother, she was fair. As a mother to Isabella, she clearly fell short.
It wasn’t that Cynthia didn’t love Isabella. She was her only child. Losing Isabella would’ve devastated Cynthia. There was no reason for Natalie to be so cold to her.
In the end, Natalie was just too heartless, too poisonous.
But Ethan, Cynthia’s grandson, wasn’t blameless either.
If Ethan hadn’t kept being so good to Natalie after getting married, Isabella wouldn’t have gotten so jealous. She wouldn’t have stirred up so much trouble or made everyone hate her. Honestly, the biggest mistake was Ethan’s.
Sophia, listening nearby, felt her mind spinning as Grandma called the police. She heard those words—Cynthia hadn’t killed herself. Grandma said Cynthia was pushed, there was proof, and the person who did it was Natalie.
Cynthia... didn’t take her own life?
After hanging up, Stephanie grabbed Sophia and called Jeremy and Frank. The four of them hurried to the Lane house.
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Meanwhile, at the Lane residence, Natalie was just waking up.
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Author, please get your characters names right. You always messing them up!...
I wish Harold will win Isabella's heart. I was so sad when Isabela was taken for granted coldly and cruelly by her supposed to be husband, and trapped,mocked and humiliated non stop by Natalie. This was so cruel, both don't deserve Isabela' forgiveness I wish for a happy ending between Isabela and Harold, he has the right to be happy after the long wait....
Frankly, the story initially was going quite good and the pacing was just right. unfortunately after Ethan got the dream of his past life, the story has been going in circles. Ethan's spouting the same nonsense every time he sees Isabella, they both have same conversations over and over. The authors monologue too has been the same for almost 400 chapters. Irrespective of which character the writing the just a repetition of what someone had gone through in the past and what made a certain character feel the emotions. York got introduced in 800 chapters yet nothing significant happened till date. Isabella is soft with Harold and kind of disgusted with Ethan, yet it is not entirely clear with whom she might end up. If she stays single i am fine with it but the story is clearly about Isabella and Ethan so almost 1000 chapters without seeing any progress in their relationship is frustrating. Except for being blindly in love and few aggressive instances with Isabella, Ethan actually isnt a bad person so i am fine if he can win her back. Even though Harold is coming off as a good second lead, i am somehow unable to warm upto him. Even the bad people in the story are not really facing any real consequences. I hate Jackson for his hypocrisy. I hate Jordan and Natalie for their self-righteouness and selfishness. I also hate Deborah, except when she is handing it out to Natalie. I am almost on the verge of dropping this story....
Why are they acting like kids 🤣😭...
Ethan is actually not that bad if we take out his blind love for Natalie...