Chapter 1

CHAPTER ONE

ISABELLA’s POV

Pacing to and fro as I held my breath, my hands were shaking nervously and I was almost out of breath. Breathing out again, I looked at Tyler.

“I can't believe you would spend that much money without letting me know!” I couldn’t help raising my voice slightly.

“I thought it was a necessary expense. Besides, you spend money on things I don't agree with all the time.” He shrugged which got me more angered.

This very stupid non challant attitude. I just breath in so as not to ruin everything, “The company has gone down and this is all you have to say? You're unbelievable! Do you realize at all that we are going bankrupt.”

I picked up my bag and walked out of the office. I was aware of the fact that his eyes bore into my back, but I didn't care.

I’m Isabella Drake, only legitimate daughter of the Drake family, I have a brother, Mason and a step sister, Nicollete.

Even though we both regarded ourselves more as a sister than a step sisters. I got married 5years ago, to my husband, Tyler Andrew and after few months, I transferred all of my property to him except for the Central Group Company because it was our family business.

Even though I knew he was usually an asshole when it comes to money. I had made him the director of the Central Group Company after his many pleas, but he kept disappointing me each time.

I was sweating profusely as I walked towards the car park. I detested any form of argument with him or anyone, it always made me weak and needlessly exhausted. Except, this was not the kind of weakness I usually feel after an argument. This was worse. I felt my physical strength draining gradually as my vision blurred.

What was happening? I could no longer comprehend my surroundings. “Help me!” I felt a wave of cold coming over me and despair rose at the bottom of my heart.

I knew Tyler was inside the office, I wish he would hear me. But I was so weak that I couldn't call out to him. And the heavy door between the office and the park isolated me further.

I was close to my car already and I slowly slipped to the ground and shut my eyes as I couldn't help myself anymore.

“Sister?” I suddenly heard a familiar voice call out, but I couldn’t respond. My body parts had gone numb. It was my step-sister Nicollete. A glimmer of hope rose from my desperate heart. I couldn't move but I was glad help came at the right time.

My heart called out to her, “Help me” I tried to muster all my strength to raise my hand but couldn't.

I and Nicollete had always been close and we have always acted as blood sisters. After her mother died, my mother felt sorry for her and treated her as her daughter.

Thank God she came at the right time to help me. But the next thing I heard made my heart skip a beat.

“Sister, you are so naive”. She laughed resentfully, giving me a bad feeling. What had come over Nicollete?

“Only I can have Tyler and the company.” With a frightening grip, Nicollete suddenly held my hair with her slender fingers and out of the blue began to drag me with it. Panic and pain surged through my heart with every single moment. My eyes began to well up with tears.

“How dare you?”.The sharp and resentful voice of Nicollete came on again. I tried to struggle with her, but I was too weak now. All my inner turmoil was in vain.

“Help! Help me!!”. I cried inwardly, my mouth was still numb. What a distasteful state to be in. I always knew that Nicollete had always been jealous of my face and the things I had. Even the company my mother had handed over to me. But I wasn't bothered, I still tried to share all I had with her.

But she started acting good again after a long argument a year before I got married. “You always want to enjoy the best things by yourself my dear sister, you always get the best things to yourself and leave me the worst things, everyone loved you, no matter what I do to please everyone, you will be chose first before me but your time is up now”. Her cold voice reached my ears with a trace of drama.

“Why is she on the floor?”. Tyler's voice boomed from the direction of the door. I tried to shake and gain his attention as more tears poured down my eyes.

Tyler had always taken good care of me. What was more? He wouldn't sit back and do nothing seeing how Nicollete was treating me right now. “Save me Tyler”. I cried inwardly. My strength gradually returned but I still couldn't move or talk.

“The drug must have taken full effect, she will be completely paralysed from now”.

My eyes widened voluntarily , without having to ask them what was happening, I knew already, I was just an object in their presence. Tyler didn't even care about me.

The glimmer of hope my heart got just now was all gone. I became desperate again. I felt like I had fallen into an ice cellar, listening to my husband and step-sister who were talking to each other affectionately in front of me.

Theoretically, they were supposed to be the most loving and trusted people in my life, but they were the ones who were cutting my heart one by one. Seeing them side with each other was heartbreaking and painful. The pain itself was impossible to stop!

“Why did you do this? Why seduce my husband?”. I managed to mutter. The piercing pain of the betrayal overwhelmed me. My stepsister stole my husband and I did not know anything about it.

“Your husband?”. Nicollete sneered. “Tyler had always been my boyfriend, you were only a means to an end! Tyler was only with you so you could help him gain a foothold in the company and accumulate wealth for himself.”

I felt an endless sense of darkness rotating in front of me. I had been used. So it was because of the company Tyler had been good to me? Now that he had run me bankrupt to square zero, he decided to make me useless.

“I'm the one Tyler loves, I have always been the one. Isabella, you have been his wife for a long time now, it's time to give it up”.

I still couldn't believe what was happening. How could Tyler do this to me? I didn't even have the strength to cry anymore. I was just sitting there weak, hopeless and alone on the floor.

I gradually opened my eyes to meet Nicollete's eyes open with wide fury! She sneered and pinched my arm with her long nails.

“Why do you think of yourself as the legitimate daughter? I'm also a daughter of the Drake family. But I'm only regarded beneath you. Why does everyone else treat me differently? Why was I always regarded as the illegitimate daughter? I knew that Tyler's mom wouldn't allow the two of us to get married because you are Drake’s legitimate child and was older than me. So she had to give up Tyler to you even though I loved him”

And now, Nicollete wants to blame me for the pain she experienced. I was shocked. How could she think such a thing? My mother had taken care of Nicollete as her child.

Wasn't that enough for her?

“We could have just finished you here, but you are as good as useless now. Once the drugs take full effect, you will become completely paralysed.” With a scornful look in her eyes, she continued.

“We would have left you here helplessly, but Tyler already messaged Mason with your phone. He told him you were in danger, I'm sure he must be speeding through the road right now” There was a bloodthirsty glare in her eyes as she raised her hands and pinched my cheek, forcing me to look into her eyes. “But do you think your dear brother will arrive here safely and see you one last time?”

Like a bolt of lightning, the news hit me. “You…”

Although Mason was not too close to Nicollete, he was never mean to her. He still treated her like family.

I hadn't expected that Nicollete would do something to Mason too.

“Alright, we should go” Tyler sounded impatient. He walked forward and gently grabbed Nicollete's waist and then said, “Don't talk to her we've already told her so much of the impending doom, I'm sure she's less tensed now”

With a proud smile, Nicollete stood up and walked away with Tyler. The two people closest to me had betrayed me badly. I was left with nothing, no strength, just helpless.

All of a sudden, a man rushed to my front, his face covered with a mask pointed a gun at me. I had not recovered from the heart-rending scenario than this? Who did I offend again?

“Hey bitch, you look so pretty but sadly this wasn’t what I was paid to do, I was paid to kill you!”

My thoughts stopped abruptly as I felt a sharp heavy metal piercing my skull slowly as blood began to pump out aimlessly.

My body gradually turned cold as the pleading eyes beneath my forehead gradually turned resentful. My breath slowly began to drop, my eyes closing and everywhere turning dark.

There was just thing on my mind as I die.

Tyler, Nicollete, I am not going to let you go, even if I die! I promise to revenge no matter how many times I'm are reborn.

My eyes voluntarily closed up.