CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FOURTY - ONE - KEEPING UP APPEARANCE.

" You are cleaned up quite nicely," Isabella complimented, coming to a stop in front of Mateo. Mateo said nothing, his eyes boring into her. " You look... Bright," he pointed out, not bothering with a reply to her assessment. " Which is less than I can say for myself, considering how I have been disturbed these past few days." " You don't look disturbed," Isabella said with a chuckle. She didn't want to ask why he was disturbed, because she had an idea what his answer would be and she was done letting him pull her heartstrings when he had no intentions of taking responsibility for the outcome. Mateo tilted his head at her reply. " You have been avoiding me, haven't you?" Isabella allowed her brows to move toward the space between them. " Avoiding you? Of course not, I have just been busy. We have this new product that my team and I are supper excited about letting the whole of Navarre and beyond know about." Isabella's eyes sparkled the moment she started to talk about the