CHAPTER THIRTY - ONE - ABUELA MAKES AN OFFER.

Isabella stood rooted to the ground, her back to her Abuela. She didn't talk or turn, the only indication that she heard her was the shaking of her shoulders as she sobbed silently. She knew she was to blame as much as everyone else. If she had told her Abuela then, things might have been a little bit different. Her Mama might have gotten better treatment and would be better by now. Who is to say that the damn director at that hospital had not been slipping something into her Mama's IV drip under her Father's authority. Abuela would not have allowed that to happen under her watch. She would have even flown Mama out of the country if that meant she would get better treatment. Actually, she might have done that just to get Mama away from her Father. Thinking of it now, Isabella realized that Abuela had been right all along in warning Mama about her Father and refusing to give her blessing to their marriage. Mama must have chalked her dislike for her Father up to the betr