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Chapter Sixty-Four.

Author: Onyemaobi
last update Last Updated: 2022-11-20 00:03:41

"I need you to put it on."

His voice was laced in a certain level of hoarseness and a deeper baritone while Isabella brought her shock-stricken gaze to rest upon what he held in his hands. A shaky breath escaped her lips, seeing the ring she'd left that night of seven years ago.

Leonardo placed to the desk and tears stung the back of her eyes. He knew, how long had he know—she thought. Her mind raced with a million thoughts as she took a step back. He pushed. a hard lump down his throat, seeing how much recognition dawned in her amber eyes.

With her pupils dilated, Isabella froze looking back and forth, him and the concrete evidence and she knew in that moment that this changes everything.

"Leonardo" Came a tone barely recognizable from her. It had a vicious crack inside of it and she reached out to his hands. "I can explain—" He forcibly turned his gaze away from her before drawing his hands away.

Some part of him doubted that it was not true these past few days, and that even though
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