After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan) novel Chapter 424

Ethan paused for a moment before saying, “Grandma, can you send a few people over? I’m out of copies of the wedding gift list. If you have any extras, have the bodyguards bring them to me.”

It was time to cut through the chaos.

“Alright, I’ll send eight bodyguards right away. Is that enough?” Stephanie replied. “And I’ll have Mike bring the list. Just make your stance clear, then let Mike handle the rest.”

Stephanie worried that Ethan would go soft the moment he saw Natalie, so she figured Mike should go along to keep an eye on things.

“Thank you, Grandma.”

“I just hope you’ve really figured it out this time,” Stephanie said with a sigh. “Then all the love I’ve given you won’t have been for nothing. What are you planning to do about Isabella?”

“I promised her I’d give her an answer in three days. Either I help her get her wedding gifts back, or I agree to a divorce.”

Ethan thought about what Keith had said. Keith told him that picking between the two wasn’t the answer anymore.

“Just divorce her,” Stephanie said gently. “Even if you finally make a choice, you don’t love her. There’s no reason to keep her tied to you. Give her back her freedom. Let her find real happiness, let her choose the life she truly wants.”

“Grandma, you really think I should divorce Isabella? It’s not that I dislike her. I did want to spend my life with her.”

“Your marriage was a mistake from the start. You don’t dislike her, but you don’t love her either. Living with a man who doesn’t love you is miserable.”

Jackson pulled the phone away and checked the screen, just to make sure this was really Ethan calling. Did Ethan really just say he wanted to get Isabella’s wedding gifts back?

Jackson knew that money never made it to Isabella. Natalie kept it all for herself out of greed. Jackson hadn’t taken a cent; in fact, he’d even given Isabella tens of thousands of his own money.

“Ethan, you and Isabella have been married for a while now. She didn’t say anything before, so why bring it up now?”

Back then, the old Isabella didn’t have the courage to ask for anything. Everyone thought it was pointless to talk about wedding gifts months after the wedding.

“Jackson, it’s not that she didn’t care. She just didn’t dare to ask for what was hers. Now she’s asking. She wants Natalie to give back what belongs to her, and I made it clear the gifts were meant for her alone.”