Chapter 91: The End of the Conflict

James was unable to believe what Isabella just uttered as he slowly moved close to her. Even though she had just spoken those words, Isabella still slowly stepped back. “What do you mean by you don't know what I am talking about? You do know what I am talking about. I am trying my best to keep our conversation as discreet as possible. Yet you still want everything to be out. You want Alex to know about everything. Should I start jotting down everything to you before you know what I am talking about?” James said to her angrily as Isabella was still unable to understand what was going on.

“I told you the truth. You don't want to believe me. I don't know how else I am going to explain it to you, but it still remains the same. I don't know what you are talking about. I know absolutely nothing. Just let me be free from all this. Remove me from these worries, don't stress me anymore,” she said and turned around to leave, but James ran as fast as he could and gripped her hand, pulling her back. “You can't just escape while keeping me in a confused state. You have to tell me why exactly you are pushing me away. Alex is not here; his sister is not here. It's just the both of us. So be frank with me and tell me the truth. Say it to my face. Say to me that you want to end everything just because of one mistake. I was not the one who planned anything with Lily. I did not even know that Lily had any plan of poisoning you. Okay? I only helped her because she had a flat tire, and now I am suddenly a bad person because I helped her,” James yelled at Isabella, who did not even know what was going on.

“I don't know what you are talking about, and I am not pushing you away because of anything. I just don't want to be in this anymore. Whatever we have with each other should end now, should end today. Don't come here bothering Alex anymore. He's all I have got, and he's the only person protecting me. Each time you come here and keep causing trouble, he would go. He would drift far away from me, and I don't want that. I don't want something like that to come between me and Alex's relationship,” Isabella said to James, who scoffed.

“You really think there is something going on between the both of you that is special? You still don't know the truth. Something is wrong, and I will find out. There is something they are not telling me about everything happening, and I promise I will find out no matter what,” James said to her angrily as he let go of her. 

She whined in pain and staggered back, only for Alex to rush out. “How dare you!” he yelled at James, who stopped, not knowing that he had already become very furious and was in an angry state. He turned around to look at Alex as he ran down.

“Don't you move a step from there until you explain to me why you tried to hurt her!” he yelled.

James was also not ready to give up easily or make Alex act like he was superior to him. He turned around. “Don't you ever question me like that anymore. Don't you open your mouth and utter such words to me. Yes, she's a student of mine, and I care about her. That is the reason why I am standing here right now. But push that aside. I am still your professor, and you are still supposed to keep that respect for me. She doesn't want me here, and she doesn't want me close to her. I am leaving. That is it. There is nothing going on, and you don't need to carry your blabbing mouth and come here to question me. Because if you ever do that next time, I would not accept it at all,” James warned as Alex laughed.

“So what? Am I supposed to be scared of you just because of what you said? I am actually not scared of you because you are still in my territory. When we are in school, then you can claim ground. But here in my own house, you are a nobody, and I cannot just watch you treat her like that. I saw what you did. I saw how you pushed her. She almost fell. She literally staggered. A sick person who has been in the hospital for days, and you push her that way? Do you even have an ounce of emotion in you? Do you even have pity for her and everything that she passed through? You had the guts to hold on to her and push her that way?” Alex said angrily to James as James also realized he shouldn't have done something like that. 

Even though he was angry at the decision that Isabella was making, he shouldn't have just pushed her away like that. He should have at least considered her illness. He turned to Isabella with an emotional expression. “I am sorry for the way I pushed you. It was a mistake, and it was all out of anger. I shouldn't have done something like that.” He immediately apologized as Isabella looked away, not even giving him a glance or accepting his apology. 

He turned around to leave again, but Alex was not letting him go so easily. “You apologize to her. At least you are able to do that after you and Lily tried to kill her,” Alex said, which made James angry. He turned around to Alex and hurriedly rushed to him as he held onto his collar. “Don't you ever, ever in your wildest dream accuse me of something like that. Yes, I saw Lily on the road, and I helped her. Put that aside. Nothing else happened. There was nothing between me and Lily that would make me want to even plan to poison her.” 

He tried to warn Alex, who laughed. “If there is really nothing between the both of you, why did Isabella tell me what you tried to do with Lily? She caught you! If you really were not planning something with her, you shouldn't have been caught in that position.” Alex questioned James as James immediately became speechless. 

He turned to Isabella, not believing that she could open her mouth and say such things to somebody else. Something that was meant to be between the both of them, between the three of them. A secret. He was not expecting her to say something she was supposed to keep discreet. She opened her mouth and talked about it like it was nothing.