Chapter 47. Set Up

Isabella paced around in the living room restlessly.

“You need to calm down ma’am,” Peggy told her. For several minutes now, she had been trying to calm her madam down and give her possible reasons why her husband, Alexander had not been taking her calls. “I am sure he is just caught up somewhere or something, definitely nothing serious.

“You don’t understand Peggy,” Isabella said for the hundred time, also trying to make her see reasons why she ought to be worried. “I know my husband. He would not go these long hours without trying to reach out or at least, tell me what me what he is up to so I know what to expect if I would want to talk to him thereafter.”

“Well sometimes thinks like this happen and they are out of our control,” Peggy told her.

“Alexander would have reached out somehow,” Isabella insisted, biting the tips of her fingers nervously. “Oh God, I hope nothing has happened to him.”

Just then, her phone rang and she quickly picked without ch