Chapter 143: The Decision II

James was still sitting in his office, holding the resignation letter in his hand, feeling very sad and down. He was all emotional as he was deep in thought. Then he heard a knock on his door. He didn't even bother to respond to it as he didn't want to face anybody right now. He was too emotional to deal with anyone, so he didn’t bother to reply to the knock on his door.

Then the knock came again insistently. He just used his ankle to wipe his face a bit and look okay before he replied to the person at the door. “Come in,” he said as Tricia and Rachel walked into his office and sat down in front of him. Trisha immediately caught a glimpse of the resignation letter on his table and picked it up.

“What is this, James? What are you trying to do? Are you resigning from your job? Are you trying to tell me that you would give up your job just for some stupid nonsense?” she said to him as she held the resignation letter in her hand. She removed the letter from the envelope and read it, annoyance visible on her face as she looked up at James.

“What do you think you are doing, James? Why are you sacrificing yourself for someone that is still unconscious? Like, you don’t even know if she will remember you once she regains consciousness? Do you even know if her situation will get better or worse? We don't know what is going to happen yet. That operation was just a 50-50 chance, and we don’t know if she's going to regain her memory or lose more of it. You don’t know if she will remember you or still love you, and now you want to put your job on the line just for Isabella. Why?”

“Just stay out of it, Trisha. I'm doing this for Isabella. I'm doing this for her because I love her, and I believe that Alex is going to use this against her. So before he does anything stupid to Isabella, I have to resign. I'm leaving this place for good, and I promise Isabella will not see me again. I will not be a disturbance to her anymore, and I will not hinder anything in her life. At least she will be free now that I'm planning to resign. Please don’t tell her about anything. Just keep it a secret,” he said to Trisha and Rachel.

Rachel just sat there, stunned in silence. She couldn’t even utter a word. “What do you think you are doing, James? Why would you leave because of Isabella? You can’t do that! You can’t resign from your job! You’re literally putting your career on the line just for Isabella! You don’t even know if she’s still going to regain her memory of you. Just don’t do this, James!” she shouted at him, feeling frustrated.

“Look, James is trying to give up his job for Isabella, while Alex is there thinking of how to get revenge on her. He doesn’t even love her!” she said out loud as James looked at her in surprise.

“What did you just say?”

She didn’t even realize that she had blurted that out as she couldn’t hide it anymore. “Yes, Alex does not love Isabella anymore. He has just been pretending this whole time! He thinks that you and Isabella had really had something to do with each other, but I’m not sure if he really knows the truth. But I think it’s starting to get out that you and Isabella were really a thing. He’s planning to make Isabella’s life a living hell by getting married to her without even loving her anymore, and he’s starting to show his true character. He’s becoming aggressive! Can’t you see that? Can’t you see that Alex doesn’t love her anymore? And you are planning to leave her alone in the hands of Alex, who is going to treat her badly. How can you even do this? How can you sacrifice your job and throw Isabella into Alex’s hands? Alex does not love her! He’s just going to make life hard for her! Can’t you see clearly, James?” she said in annoyance.

As Rachel sat there, she remembered that she had recorded a video clip of Alex being aggressive towards Isabella while she was lying unconscious. She backed up and shouted, “Yes, it’s true, James!”

As James turned to look at her, she continued, “Alex does not really love her! He’s just doing all this so he could get back at her! He just wants to make her life a living hell! Me and Trisha are planning to separate the both of them from each other. We believe that only you can protect Isabella from this mess that she’s going to get herself into, and now you are planning to leave her? How could you, James? You can’t leave Isabella in the hands of Alex like this! You can’t trust Alex with Isabella! Please don’t leave her!” she pleaded with him.

“How do you guys expect me to believe you? How do you expect me to believe that Alex does not love Isabella? Like, he went through all the trouble! He even risked everything to make the doctor carry out an operation on Isabella, even though he knew that it was a 50-50 chance. If she had died in the process of the operation, her parents would have blamed him, and he might likely go to jail. He still put his life on the line just for Isabella. Why would you think I would believe that? He does really love Isabella! If he did not love her, he wouldn’t have done all those things!”

“It was just a charade! He just wanted her to regain her memory so he could get the truth out of her about you and Isabella! Everything he’s doing is just a show! He doesn’t really love Isabella! Just see it clearly!” Trisha tried to explain to him.

But Rachel just said, “No need to explain to him any further. I have evidence that Alex is really aggressive towards Isabella and he doesn’t love her.”