The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 57
Isabella and Casper made their way to the kitchen on Saturday morning with a smile. She could hear all her friends and the guys around the dining room table, talking loudly enjoying the breakfast Myriam had put together. The sound of Portia’s high squeal of laughter made Isabella’s smile wider.
“Hey, Isabella,” Cam poked his head out of his office, “can you come in here please?”
“Yes, of course,” she turned and immediately went down the hall to his office and saw Gideon and Sabine were in the room already. “What’s going on?” Immediately her happiness was sucked away at their serious expressions and the way Cam closed the door behind her.
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cause of a snowstorm in Montreal.”
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l, all night. I didn’t leave and I’m sure Cat has video of us fighting in olive oil
e want to talk with you?”
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e wondering if one of the nurses were hired by one of us.”
own the hall who is likely going to take it hard. She’s pretty distracted right now but I know she’s going to be hurt. Two weeks ago, she was in love with him and would have done anything for him. Jesus, she wanted me dead she loved him so much.”
stop. You’re deflecting your own emotions to worry about someone else which is classic Isabella. You don’t want to deal with your feelings so you go looking for next person you can take care of. “
slowly, “where does Mikhail want me to meet him?”
abine, will you come with me?
stopped when she shook his head.
eed you to be empathetic and hold her. As much as you hated the son of a b***h, she needs you to be there for her.”
u wait then until
ean.”
t and foremost. Not the CEO of Juggernaut who barks orders and expects people to obey to keep them safe. She’s going to need her dad
more upset than she should be, your fiancé is going to take you back down into the basement and kick you
ry result, she did not wish the loss of a child on any parent, and she knew Mikhail and Raisa were bound to be upset.
ail.” She lied “Where is Raisa?”
ead. “She is the one who notified the nurses when she found him dead this morning and she said she needed to go home and get changed and said she would be back but she’s not
She is likely just pulling herself together. Are you okay Isabella?”
fine Ivan,” she nodded quietly. “I really am sorry for your loss.
“I know he made your life hell over the last few weeks, and we were trying to control this. I promise if there are any ongoing issues, we will tak
for the inevitable question.
one murdered Evgeni. We were going to take him away and keep him away from you. It wa
be chased by rabid wolves than listen to musical theater, so I had a bunch of girls in, and we had some drinks and played some games.”
m would ever consider such a – “
lara,” Ivan cut her off.
. He and Raoul work opposite Friday nights.” She made a face, “have you called her Mikhail? I’m surprised she isn’t here al
and she’s avoiding my father’s calls.”
isa’s eyes were red-rimmed, and she moved to stand next to Isabella. “You okay, kiddo?”
She nodded. “Raisa
or Raisa, she backed up.
ail asked incredulously. “Do you think we had anything to do with this?”
to get really ugly. The less witnesses, the better.”
e. I’ll buy you a strong coffee on the way home. You look like you need it.” He rubbed his side
led into a room meant for grieving families and Mikhail reached for Raisa again, but
darling Raisa. You know I would
from the two men in the small room.
difficulty. His face flushed and his fists clenched.
il put his hand on his son’s shoulder. “Tell
suddenly cold and hard.
bed her back gently. Isabella tucked a tendril of her grey hair over her ear, pursing her lips. “When the nurse walked out, he looked at me with the evillest expression. Mikhail, he wasn’t our son anymore. He spoke so coldly and so cruelly. He said when he got out of the hospital, he was going to
at down in a chair, his hands trembling.
ing. Mikhail, he told me he did it before and it worked, and it would work with Isabella.”
ella pulled her head back, “what?”
“All the sweet, kind, loving boy we thought we had was a game. He told me so himself.” She pulled her phone out with trembling hands and opened a voice recording she
s because she kept having miscarriage after miscarriage. I had her killed and disposed of because she was of no use. But Isabella, she’s a strong woman and she will have my children and she will love me if it takes me ten years to make her love me, then so be it.”
to sit in a chair. “How did I not notice any of this?”
already had Isabella in Russia. He was supposed to have taken you the same week you started seeing Cam.”
n moved to his mother and
demanded I increase his pain medication dose. He knew I used to help with my mother’s medication, so he insisted I do it and not wait for the nurse. He yelled at me to hurry up because he had a headache. I took my insulin for my diabetes. I still don’t have the auto injectors,” she sniffed at her son, “You’ve been after me so long to get the newest updates, but I’ve been doing it the same way for thirty years, so I keep my needles. I injected the multiple syringes of insulin into his medication pump.”
floor.
y in front of him with her chin held up, “I know you will have to do what you must since I murdered your son, but he was evil. I could not let someone like him continue to rape and murder like he confessed to me. I couldn’t do it. It is one thing to run drugs and money but to plan to rape someone, especially our Isabella?”
ly, of which Isabella, Clara, Cam and even Portia too, are part of, then you did the right thing. I love you. I love you always, forever, and nothing, not even this, could ever make me not love you.”
oor, but he and Ivan picked her up and held her tightly as she wailed through her grief.
hand. “It’s time we go Isabella.”