Chapitre 70: Back off Isabelle

ISABELLE

"You don't have to pretend with me anymore, I know now that you are not a bad person. At first, I thought you did it because you had some ulterior motive or that you might have even caused it. But up till this day, no one else knows about what you did for my aunt. You saved that baby you know." My lips parted and I gasped, "how did you find out?"

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"Are you okay? Would you stop fidgeting already " Jessie scowled but how could I calm down, my stomach hadn't been settled ever since this morning. I had forgotten completely but I couldn't get the images that continued to replay in my head from the dream that had me up with a sharp gasp this morning. It was the day after the party right? The second Madam of the Quing household was fed poison, and she lost her baby.