Tangled Hearts: Chapter 47

Chris stiffened and Isabella looked up at him. “I have always had a special place for you, right from when we were little, I guess,” she chuckled softly. “But like I said, you were cold and unapproachable, hardly talks to anyone. Even when we were little, although you always allowed me to join you and Sapphire in the car when your bodyguards picked you up, you never said a thing to me, you hardly say a thing to anyone but Sapph and so I grew up thinking that there would never be anything between us.”

Chris closed his eyes and exhaled softly. “When Ryan started coming after me, I didn’t want to accept him, I believed that one day, maybe one day you will notice me. But when he asked me openly and you were still treating me coldly and avoiding me, I didn’t want to lose a good man while waiting for something that would never happen. You never gave me a sign, Chris, not even a little,” she whispered.

“I gave you signs,” Chris whispered, opening his eyes, “just not the way you