The Billionaire's Pretend Wife (Isabella) novel Chapter 82

The next morning, the two sat down to have breakfast together. Isabelle asked him whether it would be okay to leave her luggage at his place while she took care of some matters during the day.

He told her she could stay as long as she wanted, but she insisted that she would not bother him further.

“Just don’t shy away from asking me if you need anything,” he told her. “You can count on me, Isabelle.”

She nodded and gave him a grateful smile. “Thank you, Seth. I don’t know how I’ll ever repay your kindness.”

“I would do anything for you,” he told her, staring straight into her eyes.

Isabelle remembered when Jacob warned her that Seth wanted to sleep with her. She had always thought that his interest in her had ended in college, but there was no mistaking the look in his eyes. Granted, it wasn’t a bad kind of look.

Jacob had made it sound as if Seth’s only interest in her was getting her to bed. But that wasn’t the kind of longing Isabelle saw in his eyes. This one was pure, sincere.

And from his actions and words, she knew he deeply cared for her, and not just as a friend. It made her feel guilty for accepting his kindness when her rejection must be hurting him.

That was the main reason she couldn’t keep relying on him.

She was never going to use anyone to attain her own goals when doing so could hurt them.

“I’ve noticed that you are not wearing your wedding ring,” Seth said, looking at her hand. “Did you get into a disagreement with your husband? I don’t mean to pry, and you don’t have to tell me.”

Isabelle looked down at her hand, and her empty ring finger. Seth must have noticed when she started wearing the ring. She guessed he had connected the dots after the state he had found her in the previous night, so she answered truthfully, “Yes.”

Seth’s hand closed into a fist. “Is that why he let you out alone in a storm? What a jerk!”

His tone was angry, which took Isabelle by surprise. She shook her head. “No, it…it wasn’t his fault.”

He frowned. “He still shouldn’t have let you leave like that.”

“He didn’t know,” she said quietly. And now, she wondered how Jacob had reacted when he went home and she wasn’t there.

They fell into silence for a few moments, and then she told him, “I’m going to resign from the company.”

Seth’s brow creased again in a frown. “Why?”

“I need to,” she told him. And then, she said, “I never really thanked you for helping me with the interview.”