Going after him

ISABELLA POV

I was not allowed to see Alex. For a moment, I stood, astonished. In my ride of anger, I had driven to his office with the sheer intent of seeing him and skinning him alive. I’d forgotten that I was just known here, that I was practically a secret.

Edward didn’t introduce me to his job because he didn’t want people knowing too much about me; he just wanted to keep me at home as the perfect wife while he worked and inaugurated his sons into the working life. So it was perfectly normal for the receptionist to immediately see me and turn me away. They probably thought I was just another female aiming to meet Alex.

“You don’t understand,” I said for the third time. “I’m quite close to Alex. I need to see him now.”

There were three behind a long desk. The first one shook her head at me tiredly, as if she understood my predicament and was tired of turning puny females away.

“Ma’am, if you don’t have an appointment, I cannot help you,” she said.

Now I felt insulted. I would hav