Chapter 52: THE PAST

ISABELLA’S P.O.V. I enjoyed shopping. Whenever I told people that, they always assumed I was a materialistic rich girl who had everything given to her but it couldn’t have been further from the truth. While I was at my neighbor's house, shopping was the only time I had some peace of mind. I was out of the house and I was happy. It became a coping mechanism for me that I didn’t even know I needed. It was a luxury I couldn’t always afford but I always made time for it. Lorenzo loved watching me spend his money, I thought it was weird but I never really put much thought to it whenever he handed me his card. He always had two guards following me at a safe distance and I wondered if he thought I didn’t know or if he knew that I was aware and still did it. I had never been grateful for those guards until today. At first, I had chalked it up to a coincidence that a man had been entering the same stores that I had but I knew he was following me when he eased his way into a Victoria’s Secre