Jordan watched the two women disappear into the main house.
Malvina peered through the gates, then looked back at him. "Boss, should I ring the bell again?"
He shook his head. "No. They're never going to let me in."
He placed the gifts he had bought on the ground by the gate, snapped a photo of them, and sent it to Isabella. Then he recorded a voice memo: "Isabella, I bought a wellness hamper for your mother. I wanted to apologize to her face-to-face. I made too many mistakes in the past, and she doesn't want to see me."
Isabella was in the passenger seat on her way home with Harold when she received the message. She glanced at the photo of the gifts sitting on the pavement and typed back: "My mother doesn't need anything. Take your things back."
"You can't take back a gift once it's given. I left it at the gate. Bring it inside for her when you get back."
"I was wrong about everything."
"Are you drunk?" Isabella could hear the slur in his voice and easily guessed his state.
Jordan let out a bitter laugh. "I had quite a few drinks, yeah. A little drunk, maybe. But I'm not apologizing because I'm drunk. I'm... I got drunk so I could find the courage to come here and apologize."
Isabella's reply was icy. "The past is in the past. My mother isn't going to hold a grudge. Just don't ever disrupt our lives again, and we'll be fine."
Jordan didn't reply.
After a long silence, he stumbled back to the car, looking completely defeated, and told Malvina to drive him home.
As she pulled away from the curb, she offered gently, "Boss, why don't we go to my place? If you go home, your wife is probably just going to scream at you again. You really need to get some proper rest."
He hadn't slept well in days.
During the day at the office, he was surviving purely on coffee.
Even though he had never promised to divorce Natalie and marry her, he had given Malvina plenty of perks. He bought her the car she wanted, and the new apartment she asked for—a fully furnished place that didn't even require renovations.



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The readers' comments on the novel: After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan)
I will be devastated if Isabella and Ethan will get back together. Please, writer, Isabella deserves Harold....
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...