After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan) novel Chapter 228

Was Isabella talking trash about him behind his back? Ethan couldn’t help but wonder as he fished his phone out of his pocket. He was about to call her when her message popped up on his screen first.

She wrote, “Ethan, I threw you under the bus. If your family asks, just go along with it, okay?”

Ethan stared at her message, totally confused. Thrown under the bus for what?

He quickly texted back, asking what she meant. He needed the details or he’d mess up the story.

Isabella replied almost instantly. “I told your mom you’re clueless about sex and, well, not exactly capable. She kept bugging me to have kids, so I had to say you have... issues. Basically, I told her I’ve been living like a widow.”

Ethan’s jaw dropped. “You’re the one with issues! Your whole family has issues!” he muttered under his breath. He was perfectly fine. Well, he’d never actually tried, so how would he know for sure? But he was healthy, so he had to be fine.

The driver glanced at him in the mirror and asked, “Everything okay, Mr. Adams?”

Ethan took a few deep breaths and shook his head. “It’s nothing. Just keep driving.”

He fired off another message to Isabella, telling her she shouldn’t have used something like that as an excuse. It was a hit to his pride.

Isabella sent back, “What’s done is done. Just go with it. This way we can keep sleeping in separate rooms and your family won’t keep pestering us for a baby.”

Ethan was fuming. Sure, she didn’t have to deal with the pressure anymore, but now he was in trouble. He could already imagine his dad and uncles giving him weird books or videos to ‘help,’ or even dragging him to doctor after doctor and forcing him to take medicine. And he hated taking medicine more than anything.

Still, Isabella’s plan worked. Jennifer stopped bugging her and moved back to the Adams Estate that same day.

Isabella finally felt like she could breathe. She could focus on work and making money without any distractions.

Two peaceful days passed, then it was the first day of filming.

“Yeah. What’s up?”

Ethan motioned for his bodyguards to leave. Once it was just the two of them and nobody could overhear, he said quietly, “Natalie’s definitely pregnant.”

Isabella just nodded. “We already guessed she was. So now it’s official.” She looked at him, her face calm. “Are you upset? Or are you dying to go congratulate her?”

“I’ll go in a few days. I’m busy right now, you can see the show just started filming and I have to stay with the crew.”

Isabella assumed Ethan wanted her to go back to her parents’ place, so he’d have an excuse to visit Natalie.

Ethan didn’t say anything else. His face was a mix of frustration, pain, and something that looked a lot like heartbreak.