His Ruthless Redemption (Isabella and Dominic) novel Chapter 59

Chapter 59

Isabella’s POV

I didn’t hear his footsteps at first.

All I heard was my own heartbeat, a painful, frantic thud beneath my palms as I crouched on the cold ma trap the pieces of myself before they scattered.

Then, I heard his voice. “Isa?”

He sounded warm, concerned, exactly what I hadn’t been ready for

I flinched and looked up.

Dominic stood a few feet away, worry etched across his face. He took one step closer, then another, gaze dropping my arms were wrapped around myself like armor.

“Are you hurt?” His voice sharpened, panic threading through it. “Did someone say something? Did something happen? Isa.

look at me.”

I shook my head, but tears slipped out anyway. I cursed under my breath and wiped them with the heel of my hand.

m fine.”

e crying on the floor,” he countered, dropping to his knees in front of me. “That’s not fine.”

His hands hovered, like he wanted to touch me, cradle my face, steady my shaking, but didn’t know if he was allowed to.

I hated how much I wanted him to.

“I just needed a minute,” I whispered, staring at the floor.

“To do what?” His voice softened. “Fall apart alone?”

The words hit harder than they should have. I swallowed.

“You don’t have to do that anymore.”

A bitter laugh bubbled up in my throat. As if all the places I’d broken in the past had been glued seamlessly back together. As if I hadn’t just been ripped open in all the same places yet again.

“I’m okay,” I lied. “Really.”

ewly like he didn’t believe me but didn’t know how to pull the truth out without breaking something else.

night?” he asked quietly.

hitched.

tinued, guilt flickering through his eyes. “I know I shouldn’t have come down hard on you, I was just worried. You d’ve been hurt. Or worse. I can’t ignore that. I won’t.”

1st night.

1/4

Yes. That was one of the things. But it wasn’t the knife currently lodged between my ribs.

“You took me upstairs” I said, voice barely above a whisper.

“I did.” he admitted. “I wasn’t going to leave you on the floor by the door. I didn’t like seeing you like that.”

“And the Tylenol

His lips twitched, not into a smile, but into something sad. “Hangovers and I have been old enemies. Felt like the least could do.”

That was the problem.

The least he could do felt like the most to me.

Ib hard. “Thank you.”

e.” he murmured. “You don’t

gratitude for caring about you.”

d painfully.

sia’s voice echoed usband.

esses. He always does. It’s one of the things that make him an

ble husband.

someone else

swallowed

Domin

htly. “I should go check on Mateo. I need to find him.”

with Maria. He’s fine.” A pause. “You didn‘

e say something to upset you? Because

tin, voice sharper than intended. “It’s

want to fix things when it’s you.”

nus.

1. e. A truth.

word trembli

stly an

on.”

everything.”

se you feel guilty? Because you think it’s the right

my whole body shivered.

“You’re family,” he said.

Of course, I was. I was the mother of his child.

I pulled my arm away.

He noticed. He frowned.

Isabella?”

You should go.” I whispered. “Alessia might need you.”

brows furrowed. What does she have to do with this?”

heng today. About you. About things.” My throat closed. “It doesn’t matter.”

his jaw. “Tell me what she said.”

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