Chapter 148 You're Scared of Me

Isabella was jolted awake by her phone's ringing. She was so exhausted from the night before that she didn't even have the energy to toss and turn, let alone notice when Theodore left. The phone seemed to have been ringing for a while. When she woke up groggily and checked it, she saw over a dozen missed calls, all from the same unfamiliar number. Whoever it was had called repeatedly, so it had to be urgent. As she debated calling back, the phone rang again. She answered. Jessie's voice came through. "Isabella…" Isabella didn't expect this. After that night at the hotel, Jessie had vanished. Both Alexander and Theodore had sent people to track her down, but there'd been no trace of her. Why was she calling now? "Jessie?" "Isabella, please let me go. I'm begging you—give me a way out. I know I was wrong…" It seemed she'd been found. Isabella's voice was cold. "Now, you're asking me to let you go? The first time you set me up, I could convince myself you were coerced. After all,