Chapter 139: Tension and Betrayal

He was already on the verge of showing his true character, but he was trying to hold himself back. He didn't know what Rachel had in store for him, and he knew that she was trying to stir something different in him, so he was trying to hold himself back as Rachel continued saying hurtful words to him.

He just clenched his fists in anger and looked at her with a deadshot glance, but she didn't even flinch at the anger flaring up in his eyes. She kept on questioning him as to why he didn't let James come over or inform him about her operation.

Meanwhile, while a lot of thoughts were running in Alex's head, Isabella's parents were all looking at Rachel as Isabella's mother stood up and walked up to her.

"Who is this James you've been talking about? Why are you talking gibberish? My daughter is right there lying unconscious, and you are here talking about some James? Who the hell is this James?" Isabella's mother shouted at Rachel while Rachel just stood there and felt very sorry for Isabella's mom.

She knew the kind of pain she was going through, and she just wanted to make Isabella's mom see the true color of Alex. She wanted to really expose him so that they would separate Isabella from Alex and Isabella would lead a peaceful life and not have to endure Alex's bad behavior as he was becoming too aggressive by the day.

Rachel thought to herself as she apologized to Isabella's mom and said, "I'll just call James over. Maybe you can ask him who he is by himself," she said and walked out of the waiting room.

She pulled out her cell phone from her bag and dialed James's number. James picked up after two rings.

"Hello, James, you have to come to the waiting room right now. Isabella has gone into a shock state, and I don't know what's going on. She's becoming aggressive, and she's still unconscious. Please, can you just rush over here right now? I think Isabella likes you a lot."

James didn't even allow her to finish what she was saying. He ended the call and rushed back into the hospital. He quickly went to the waiting room where Isabella's ward was.

As he got there, he saw everybody sitting up there, and he didn't see any signs of shock. He wondered why Rachel had called him over, saying that Isabella had gone into a shock. He looked at Rachel disdainfully and immediately knew that she had planned this all along. She just wanted him to come over there so Isabella's parents would see him.

Isabella's mother stood up and looked at him.

"Who are you?" she said to him as James stepped back and said, "I'm James, Isabella's lecturer."

He said to her as Isabella's mother looked him over from head to toe and wondered why he was so young if he was Isabella's lecturer. But she didn't say anything. She just sat back down and placed her palm on her face, feeling dejected.

Meanwhile, Rachel stood there and gave James a meaningful look as James felt very angry at Rachel for doing this. He didn't expect that Rachel would actually trick him into coming before Isabella's parents and Alex, including Trisha.

Trisha looked at James but didn't say anything. As Alex walked up to James, Trisha felt that the both of them might get into a fight. Alex's true colors were going to show now, and he didn't know that Rachel had planned this all out so that Alex would show his real behavior in front of Isabella's parents.

He didn't care anymore. All he felt was anger. Anger asked James as to why he had come. He had seen him earlier in Isabella's ward, but he didn't say anything. He was feeling very angry at him for coming to Isabella's ward and touching her, even. He even had the guts to beg her on her cheeks and on her arm. The anger of that sight was still boiling in him, and seeing James standing right in front of Isabella's parents right now was making him very angry.

“As Alex moved closer to James and looked at him disdainfully, anger clearly boiling in his eye. James just stood here remaining calm and didn't utter any words to Alex as Alex stepped closer to him ready to confront him.

“Why? What the hell are you doing here? Who gave you the right to come here and who gave you the right to come to see Isabella?” Alex demanded.

“Isabella? Isabella has nothing to do with you and you don't have the right to come over here to see Isabella,” he continued, glaring at James.

“Wow. You are asking me who gave me the right to come here? Isabella is my student, remember? I have the right to come check on her if I heard she went through surgery,” James said to Alex calmly.

As Alex just scoffed at him, he retorted, “Wow, so she's your student, is that it? Do you go to every student that is sick. Is that how you go to check on them?”

He said this distinctly while continuing to confront him about why he came to see Isabella, even questioning if he had other motives behind his visit, but James did not even utter a word to him. He just stood there calmly in front of him.

Alex grew angrier at the sight of James just standing there, calm and unreactive to anything he was saying. Anger boiled inside Alex. The more animal-like he became, the more he clenched his fists in frustration until he finally threw a punch at James's face.

“What the hell do you think you want to do? Are you trying to punch someone that is older than you, Alex?” Isabella's father said as he stood up.

But Alex just looked at him and dropped his hand. He didn’t punch James anymore and just glared at him in anger. He felt very annoyed just looking at his face. He wanted to smash his fist into that handsome face to make it unattractive to any girl, not to mention Isabella.