The CEO’ s second choice novel Chapter 62

　　Elena

　　“I’ll ask it again, who the hell are you?!” Sebastian repeats, and I am left stunned on the bed, unable to move or pull him off my best friend. Isaac was dainty and didn’t know how to fight. Why was Sebastian doing this?! Then Isaac takes Sebastian’s hand from around his throat and twists it before shoving him away gently.

　　Uh, excuse me, WHAT?!

　　“I would appreciate it if you did not touch me,” Isaac says in an accent that didn’t quite match him… a Cockney accent. “Isaac… What’s going on?” I ask, flabbergasted at the scene in front of me. Sebastian looks over at me. “Elijah just called me with some interesting news. He’s had Isaac investigated since he showed up at the hospital after your accident. We noticed that my death threats and attempts on my life started after you met Isaac and did some digging. The identity he gave does not exist; there is no Isaac MacGowan.” Sebastian says, and I feel as if my life was crashing down all around me.

　　Isaac lied to me?

　　I looked over at the man I deemed my soulmate and best friend and felt nothing but despair. “What is he talking about, Isaac?” I ask, needing to know the truth, even if it hurts me. I was well past disappointment right now. Isaac looked at me with a broken expression and shook his head while giving a sad scoff. “This wasn’t how I wanted you to find out, Elena.” He says, again without his lovely Scottish accent. “Find out? What do you mean?”

　　“Don’t believe a word he says, Elena,” Sebastian interjects and I shake my head. “I want to hear what he has to say. I deserve the truth after months of lies.” I say and urge Isaac on before Sebastian loses his cool yet again. Isaac sighs and I brace myself for what he deemed his truth.

　　“I work for the NCA. They put me onto your case after Elise Dumont passed away under strange circumstances. My job was to keep Elena Dumont safe, and I failed.” Isaac starts and I see Sebastian blanch. “Elise… My aunt is dead?! He exclaims with a shocked look on his face. I didn’t know who Elise was, but something made me realise that this would be Robert and Spencer’s sister. Isaac nods. “Yes, I apologise. She passed on last December. However, we discovered that she left her shares in everything to your father, who in turn left everything to you when he passed on. We still have not figured out why they changed their wills at the last minute and left nothing to Robert.” Isaac says, and Sebastian takes a step back, looking shocked. “The NCA is involved in this?”

　　“Yes. Spencer used to be in Intelligence before he settled with Mirabelle, but he’s had surveillance on him ever since. NCA never realised how close the threat was to the man who would have taken over MI5. The man who chose his family over the position as head of British Intelligence.” Isaac says, and I see the cogs in Sebastian’s mind spinning out of control. I look over at Isaac. “How can we believe everything you have said? How do we know it isn’t another lie?” I say with a crack to my voice and notice the hurt in Isaac’s eyes before he blinked it away… Then he smiles.

　　“I have nothing to hide, Elena. I was simply doing my job and failed to protect you. How do you think I knew about Anabelle and her hatred towards you? I told you about her months ago but you kept her around.” He says and Sebastian’s head snaps towards Isaac. “You told her about Anabelle?”

　　Isaac nods, “I warned her early on.” He says, and I feel the guilt coming back. He did try to warn me, and I did nothing. I tried to see the good in Anabelle and it almost killed me. I look up at him again. “Who are you really?” I ask, but I honestly don’t think that I want to know. This is when Isaac chuckled. “Are you sure you want to know that, Elena?” he asks, and I am taken aback at how well he knows me. Did I truly want to know? I nod, then his smile drops.

　　“Very well. The MacGowan’s are my family. They took me in when I was only a day old and raised me as their own. Well, my father was truly Mortimer MacGowan, but my mother was… someone else entirely. An heiress set to marry into nobility when she turned 21. I was the dirty secret she kept, threw away and sold for 3 Billion as a hushed secret but my father got his own back when he named me.” Isaac says with a sad smile and my heart stops when he pins me with a blue-eyed stare.