CH 142:

Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire

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Chapter 142:

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See, if Isabella’s life was a movie, this is where it would end.

A great romantic conclusion tied up with a neat little bow, roll credits, and scene.

But this isn’t a movie, and this isn’t where it ends.

“I’m thinking about going back to school,” Isabella says one afternoon during a lunch date. She doesn’t stop stirring anxiously at her gelato until Archibald reaches out to physically stop her before it turns to soup, and she won’t like it as much.

“I think that’s a good idea,” he replies.

Isabella is still basically unhireable, further blacklisted professionally by the drama that came out of her father’s quick but messy trial that put him in jail for years and ruined any good reputation any of them might have had.

(The man left a single furious, frothing voicemail on Isabella’s phone that could be summed up as three straight minutes of death threats that included everyone from Isabella herself to the cat to the goldfish that had o