Chapter 638

Isabella’s POV

I closed my eyes, guilt and fear swirling inside me.

I couldn’t let this destroy me. I couldn’t let everything I’d built fall apart.

I needed to find out who was behind this. I needed to protect myself.

No matter what it took.

I took a deep breath, forcing the swirling emotions inside me to settle. Pity? Guilt? What was I doing? Those were useless feelings, weak feelings. 

I had spent years building this life, crafting my perfect reality, and I wasn’t about to let it slip away because of some misplaced sympathy for a child who wasn’t even mine.

I straightened my back, my fingers tightening into fists.

That boy... Layla’s son. If he really was hers, then what did that matter to me? It wasn’t my concern. It wasn’t my problem.

My focus needed to be on myself, on keeping what I had fought so hard to get. I had been through too much, risked too much, to start crumbling now.

I exh