After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan) novel Chapter 1120
Only Jordan and Natalie remained in the quiet ward.
Jordan pulled up a chair and sat beside her bed.
Looking at Natalie's pale face and swollen eyes, memories of how fragile she had been during her last miscarriage surfaced. A flicker of genuine heartache pierced his chest.
It wasn't that he didn't love his wife anymore. It was just that too much had happened, driving an invisible wedge between them.
He reached out, gently brushing a thumb across her cheek. "You've been through hell, Nat. You look awful. Once you're out of here, you need to rest and rebuild your strength."
"Jordan, it hurts," Natalie whispered. "It really hurts. I don't want to go through this a third time."
"You won't. Next time, it'll be our child, and we're going to bring it into the world."
He lowered his voice to soothe her. "We're still young. As long as you recover, we'll have kids of our own."
The couple had already finalized their terms.
No divorce.
They had to have at least one child, ideally two.
Without a child, the Gates family would stop backing him, terrified he'd just find another woman to give him an heir.
But if he and Natalie had a child together—even a daughter—the Gates family would have no choice but to continue supporting their son-in-law for the sake of their grandchild.
His father was too biased. Banking on Jackson splitting the estate fairly was a pipe dream. The Gates family was his only true leverage; their business partnerships were the only thing keeping his father's favoritism in check.
"I'm sorry, Jordan," Natalie said, her eyes welling with fresh tears.
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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...