“They’ll always push their luck. Back then, they used their numbers and your grandparents’ favoritism to grab everything your dad left behind. Now they’re just trying to run the same play all over again.”
“If you let them get even the tiniest opening, you’ll never get rid of them. You especially can’t let them into your company. Once they’re in, they’ll start building their own little team and before you know it, you’re just the boss in name only.”
“The company isn’t just yours now. If they show up looking for trouble, Barbara and Linda will step in and shut them down. Especially Linda, she basically owns this city.”
Isabella shrugged. “There’s no way I’d let them into my company. That’s just not happening. This time, they’re getting a real lesson. Now they know I’m not someone they can push around. They’ll back off a bit.”
“Harold, you don’t have to worry about me. I’m really not the same Isabella I used to be. The old me died the night I married Ethan.”
That night was when she’d come back to life.
Harold smiled at her. “You really have changed. You never used to have this kind of confidence. You were always so patient, no matter what happened with the Lane family or anyone else, you just swallowed it all.”
“I used to think you were weak and helpless. After you married Ethan and we started seeing each other more, I realized I was wrong about you. You were pretending the whole time, and you pulled it off perfectly.”
“None of us ever guessed what you were really like.”
Isabella thought to herself, The old me really was patient. A champion at putting up with things. I learned it from my mom. I wasn’t strong, or confident. Even when I argued with Natalie and put on a tough act, deep down, I had no faith in myself. I was scared all the time.
But after dying and coming back, everything looked different. She’d figured out so much, and she’d changed.


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The readers' comments on the novel: After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan)
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...