Chapter 47: Chapter 47

Isabella's pov;

"Why did you bring me here? You would have come to my restaurant if you wanted to talk to me?"

"Just come inside."

Issac took me inside his house and said, "I brought you here for a reason."

"What is it?" Asked him while walking after him.

"Steve wanted to see you."

"Then you should have brought him to the restaurant. Why bother bringing me here?"

"Because he's not in a state to go to your restaurant."

"What?"

He opened the door to a room and said, "See for yourself."

I walked in and saw Steve lying on the bed with a cast on his leg.

"What happened to him?"

"Fought with some boys in lower grade."

I laughed and asked Steve, "Who won?"

Steve said while smiling, "It's me."

While we're laughing together, Issac said, "You two are alike."

"Aren't we?" I gave a high five to Steve.

Steve, "I'm so sad that I couldn't have a taste of Tiramisu from your restaurant."

"Don't worry, I'll make Issac bring it to you next time."

"Thank you."

I asked Issac, "Where's your parents?"

"They're not home."

"Okay."

He placed his hand on my shoulder and said, "I won't make it awkward for you. You can be rest assured."

I gave a nod and continued talking to Steve about the incident and how he injured his leg to end up in a cast.

Issac, "I'll bring something to drink." And left the room.

I heard Isaac return soon, "hey, how did you come…" turned to see him but I saw the woman whom I stayed away from. Isaac's mother.

I stood up and greeted her.

She greeted me and asked me back, "Are you Isaac's friend?"

I nodded and said, "Yeah."

"You look beautiful. What's your name?"

She sounded humble.

"Isabella Garcia."

"Beautiful as you are. Um… Where's Issac?"

"He…"

Issac walked inside the room while holding a tray with drinks in his hands. Everyone in the room stared at each other, Steve, "What are you standing there for? Give me my juice."

Issac walked to Steve and gave the drink and turned to me and said, "Take it."

I took the drink and whispered, "Can I leave? I feel uncomfortable."

He nodded at me and made me walk along with me.

His mother asked, "Aren't you going to introduce her to me?"

"Let's do that later, mom. She has something important to do now."

His mother said while we're walking out of the house, "Visit again, Isabella."

We came out of the house and he said, "I apologise for what happened back there. I thought she'll be late. It's my mistake not knowing it."

"It's fine."

He checked his pockets, "Sh*t!"

"What happened?"

"I forgot my keys. Wait here, I'll go and get it."

He went back inside the house again to get the keys.

His house looked big.

While I was waiting for Issac outside the house, I saw the person who I hate the most. This day couldn't be better than this. I ignored him and stood while looking somewhere.

He walked to me fast and grabbed my hand and dragged me away from the house and asked, "What are you doing here?"

I smirked at him and said, "Weren't you the one who asked me to go with you?"

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Let go of my hand."

He tightened his grip and asked, "How did you come here?"

I snapped his hand and said, "Don't worry! I'm not here to expose you."

He grabbed my hand again and asked, "Then why are you here?"

While I was struggling to escape from his grip, his expression changed to, "Don't do this to me!"

"What?"

He let go of my hand and pleaded, "I'm begging you. You can't be here. My wife doesn't know anything. She's a delicate person, so she'll faint if she finds out about you. Please, leave."

"I don't know why but it makes me happy seeing you pleading like this."

"Does this look fun to you?" And grabbed my collar.

Issac pushed him away and shouted at him, "Don't ever come near her again." And turned to me and said, "Are you alright?"

I nodded.

"Let's go." And took me away from that place.

While Issac was driving, he apologized, "I'm sorry."

"Stop apologising for the things you didn't do."

"But it was my mistake to bring you home. I should have thought about this but I didn't. I wanted to surprise Steve so I brought you without thinking about anything. Well, What did he say?"

"He thought I came to expose him."

"I'll talk to him about that."

"Isaac?"

"What?"

"If mother was alive, she would have liked you."

"For saving you?"

I laughed and said, "Threatening is not new for me. I always lived in debt so there will always be loan sharks when I go to my house after school. If mom wasn't there, they'd threaten me for the money."

"You lived a hard life."

"But now it's changed. I own a restaurant, people love eating my food, seeing them leaving the restaurant being happy, it makes me feel happy too."

"Are you really happy?"

"Yeah, What made you ask me that?"

"I heard that Alexander is dating some girl."

I didn't reply to him back and remained silent.

"What happened between you two? Did you two break up?"

"We weren't in a relationship to break up."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Can we not talk about that?"

He gave a nod and continued driving his car.

After a while he dropped me in front of the restaurant and asked, "How long are you going to stay here? Can't you find any house nearby?"

"I thought of renting a place but I got used to it. And, it's convenient to go to work." And laughed.

I got out of the car and saw Mr Martinez's car around the street.

Issac, "Isn't that Alexander's car?"

"Yup!"

"Why is he here?"

"I talked to him but he's not listening to me."

"Can I talk to him?"

"He doesn't do anything other than stalking me so it's fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, no leave."

He waved at me and left.

I walked past his car and headed to my restaurant.

"Isabella!"

I heard Mr Martinez's voice calling out my name. I stopped from walking further and looked at him.

He walked to me and said, "I want to have a talk with you."

"What is it?"

He looked around and said, "Can we talk inside the restaurant?"

After we got seated in the restaurant, I asked, "What did you want to talk about?"

"I'm getting married. With the girl you saw at your brother's wedding. We dated for a while and liked each other so we planned to get married."

"You're so bad at lying."

"I'm not. It's true. We're getting married next month."

I stood and said, "Congratulations then. If you excuse me, I'll get back to my work."

After he left, Mike asked, "I thought you'll be shocked to hear about that but you look cool. Why didn't you get mad or get shocked?"

"Because he's lying."

"What?"

"I know about him. I know how he thinks. He's definitely plotting something against me."

"I don't get what you're talking about."

"Do you have any idea about the special dish for next week?"

"I have two dishes on my mind but I'm not sure which one I should pick."

"Then let's discuss this over lunch." And went back to working.