Isabella and the rest of the Carter family women could do little more than offer soothing words to the tearful matriarch.
Harold and the rest of the men were pacing, phones pressed to their ears, waiting desperately for the kidnappers to reach out again.
Jesse and Laura arrived shortly after. Laura pulled her friend aside, her voice a frantic whisper. "Any news on Barbara?"
Isabella shook her head, a heavy knot forming in her stomach.
She couldn't shake the suffocating feeling that York was behind this.
Was he targeting the people she cared about?
In her past life, she had never even crossed paths with York. She had died without ever knowing the monster existed. York had ultimately met his end on death row, a fitting punishment for a heartless, cold-blooded demon who had murdered, burned, and kidnapped without a shred of remorse.
The crimes he had committed were enough to earn him the death penalty ten times over.
A man like that didn't change just because he was given a second chance. Evil was bred in the bone.
She couldn't fathom why the hand of fate would grant a do-over to such a vile creature.
The truth was, York himself wasn't entirely sure if he had truly been reborn or if he was simply acting on premonitions from a vividly long dream. All he knew was that Ethan was destined to be his downfall.
Which was exactly why he had decided to strike first.
Before arriving in Cabinda, York had been thoroughly investigating Ethan, especially after Dave's botched attempt to take him out. It didn't take long to realize that Natalie and Isabella were the two most critical women in Ethan's life.
When his findings perfectly matched his 'dreams,' York panicked. He relocated to Cabinda to keep a closer eye on them, meticulously scrubbing his past clean and reinventing himself.
He had built a massive empire, sprinkling in legitimate businesses to effortlessly mask himself as a highly successful entrepreneur.
He thought his secret was safe. No one could possibly know about his dreams or his rebirth.


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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...