Isabella was stunned. No, more accurately, she was shocked and furious.
She stared at Katherine in disbelief. “What do you mean?”
Katherine brushed the hair back from her forehead and smiled lightly, almost carelessly. “Isn’t it obvious? You are you, and I am me. Don’t try to stop me from doing anything, and don’t expect me to restrain myself for your sake.”
She was no longer pretending. She laid everything out in the open.
Isabella’s heart sank. Even the hand holding Dominic’s trembled slightly.
The outcome she feared most had finally come to pass.
Her voice shook. “Do you really have to steal my husband from me?”
Katherine nodded without hesitation. “This isn’t stealing. If you and Dominic were still married, I would never have had any thoughts about him in this lifetime. But how things turned out is simply the result of your own actions.
“I remember that before your divorce, I advised you to cut ties with Alexander. But you didn’t.
“At the time, I already suspected your feelings had changed. So I stopped trying to persuade you, because a woman who has fallen out of love can’t be convinced otherwise. But now you act as if you can’t live without him. That’s what I find… confusing ”
Isabella gritted her teeth. “Confusing? He’s my husband. I love him. Of course I can’t live without him!”
Katherine let out a faint, mocking laugh. “You keep saying you love him, but what did you actually do? You abandoned him again and again.
“On his birthday, you didn’t come home. Do you know how miserable he was that day? He smashed a bottle, and his hands were covered in blood. I was the one who bandaged him. And you? You were at your dear sworn brother’s place, laughing and celebrating your birthday.
“And later, because of your indulgence and favoritism, that same ‘brother‘ even tried to kill him. He thought he could take your place and replace him entirely.
“After all of that, you still say you love him. Don’t you think your love sounds cheap… and empty?”
Her words cut straight into Isabella’s heart.
Her face turned deathly pale.
After a long silence, Isabella spoke again, her tone strangely calm. “What about you? Are you also unable to live without him?”
Katherine did not hesitate. She nodded. “Yes. Once I choose him, it’s for life.”
Isabella let out a bitter laugh. “Kathy, you know I won’t give up.”
Katherine sighed softly. “Neither will I.”
Over the past two days, although Dominic had seemed to pursue her, her own heart had been in agony as well.
Just yesterday, she had decided to cut off all contact with him. But when she saw him fighting Oliver, she still felt pain and could not stop herself from going to him.
And yet, just as she reached the door, she overheard the truth: Dominic had once died because of Isabella.
“I don’t understand,” Isabella said, shaking her head. “I really don’t… When did you start liking my husband?”
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