Chapter 9: The Rain Will Fall & So Will I

Isabelle’s Point of View:

“I am giving you something, Bella. I am giving you a title in my life.”

“And what is that?”

“Mistress.”

I looked at him, my face filled with horrified shock—not being able to believe what I heard. It was like a nightmare. Being a mistress was worse than not being anything to him; it was worse than being his step-sister. That was like the worst thing that he could have said.

But it was so easy for him to say that. Did he actually believe I would accept it?

“Are you out of your mind?” I said, pushing him away with all my force.

He stumbled back, and I took a few steps sideways, increasing our distance.

“Now you’re behaving like—”

“Every time I hit a low in my life, why do you have to show that everything can be worse?”

“I am doing this for you, you ungrateful brat. You’re the one who—”

“I didn’t even say anything to you, did I?” I scoffed and said, finally getting a wrap up his plan. “I never came up to you and confessed my feelings. I never begged f