Chapter 51 Separate Rooms

Isabella's face turned red. The first time they had talked about this, Caleb and Emma were around, and Theodore had pretended to be a gentleman. Now, with just the two of them in the room, he dropped the act entirely. "You… you… you…" she sputtered, pointing at him awkwardly, unable to get a word out. Finally, she said, "I'm not talking about this! I just said I wanted to ask you questions!" "Fine, ask away." "Did you already know that Alexander and I… knew each other?" He didn't even pause for a second and replied, "Yes." She froze, stunned for a long moment, before finally finding her voice again. "Why? Since when?" "There's only one reason. I didn't want you two together." His tone was calm, without a hint of emotion, as if they were casually discussing something trivial. She was taken aback. "Why? Was all that back then your plan too? You told Amelia to break us up just to mess with him, so he couldn't take over the Sinclair family? Was that it?" He looked at her and sudd