Chapter 5

This morning, Isabella was doing well. She had given him a kiss. she will be gone for a week, she informed him. How? How did this occur? He barely got inside the home before he passed out from exhaustion. Like a tidal wave, reality swept over him. She had left. He had lost his wife. Between a sob and a roar, a strangled sound escaped his throat. His chest collapsed under the weight of it as his hands balled into fists. The lady he had deceived, the one he had previously taken for granted, was no longer there. Adrian Marsden also lost something he couldn't get back for the first time in his life. Isabella Marsden was mourned by everyone. The socialite and philanthropist's stunning abduction was covered by news outlets nonstop. Outside the Marsden estate, candlelight vigils were conducted, and passersby left flowers at the gate while muttering their sympathies for the ideal wife who passed away too soon. Adrian Marsden, meanwhile, was falling apart behind those imposing gates a