Secrets and Confrontations
Secrets and Confrontations
James’s POV
Why does Isabella look so scared upon hearing Alex's name? Why is she insisting on not telling Alex that she's awake? There is definitely something she's hiding from me, and I need to find out.
"Isabella, please, just tell me you can at least confide in me about what's going on. Why do you seem so afraid of hearing Alex's name? And why don't you want him to know that you are already conscious? I mean, he was the one who went through the stress and effort. He risked himself going to jail just to make sure that you went through this operation so you could regain your memory. Now why? Why are you so scared of him? Why don't you want him to know that you're conscious already?" I asked.
"Isabella, seriously, please, you don't need to add anything from me. At least you called me. At least I have the right to know. Just tell me." I pleaded with Isabella.
"Okay, James, I'll tell you. The thing is that Alex has changed. Ever since I lost my memory, he changed drastically. He no longer loves me. The other day we fought, and I... I took my bag and left in annoyance. I went to Trisha's place, and it was not even up to a day that I was staying at Trisha's place when he came and said he wanted to pick me up. He threatened me that if I didn't come home with him, he was going to make my life a living hell. He threatened me a lot that day." Isabella explained, her voice trembling.
"And I had no other option than to follow him because I didn't want Trisha to know what was going on. She even... Trisha got a little bit angry, and she didn't want me to go, but I just had to. I was scared of what Alex might do to me or do to Trisha. So I had to follow him. Alex has changed, James. Even when I got to his place, he threatened me a lot. He threatened that he was going to make me suffer and that he was going to make my life a living hell. I'm scared of Alex. James, please don't call him. I don't know what he's going to do to me. Please don't tell him anything about me. I know that he just made me undergo this operation so I could regain my memory and tell him everything that I thought I had done wrong. But I can't afford to face him right now. I'm too scared of Alex. Alex is no longer the person he was before. He has changed dramatically."
Isabella explained everything to me about how Alex had changed and how he threatened her the other day at Trisha's place. She could remember vividly how scared she was of Alex, and she wasn't ready to see him. At least not right now.
As she kept on explaining to me everything Alex had been doing to her and how he had changed for the worst, I felt my anger boil. I immediately stood up.
"It's fine, Isabella. I won't tell anybody. But I'll be back. I need to go and do some things."
"Where are you going?" Isabella immediately stopped me. "Please don't leave!"
"Don't worry, Isabella. I'll be back before you even know it. You have to rest for now. I need to go take care of some important matters."
I said as I stormed out of the hospital angrily. I was going to see Alex. How could he do this to Isabella? I had let go of her thinking that Alex would be able to take care of her better and protect her much more than I could. I didn't even realize that Alex was not taking care of her anymore and that he was actually threatening to make her life a living hell.
No, I could accept all sorts of things and all sorts of insults, but I could not stand seeing Isabella in pain or being mistreated by anybody. At least not by Alex. I couldn’t forsake that for anything. I never wanted to see Isabella in pain, and now I wouldn't put her happiness at stake just because I want to make her happy.
I drove recklessly down to Alex's place, knowing he would be home by this time. As I drove in annoyance into Alex's compound, I saw a woman walking out of his house.
"What's that woman doing here? Is Alex actually cheating on Isabella just because she's unconscious? Is what Isabella said really true? Wow. I can't believe Alex could really do this to Isabella. He claims to love her and be almighty. Now this is what's going on behind her back? No, I can't accept this from Alex. He has to answer why he's doing all of this."
As I watched the woman walk out of the gate, I immediately stormed into Alex's house. I found him sitting at the bar, holding a glass of wine. He looked as if he was very happy, celebrating something. I stormed over to him.
"What the hell are you doing in my house? Who gave you permission to come in here?"
Alex shouted at me. But I didn't even give him the chance to get up before I punched him right in the face.
"What the heck? How dare you come into my house and just punch me in the face?"
"Just shut up already, Alex. I know everything you have been doing. How dare you treat Isabella that way?"
I kept launching punches at him, and as we fought, neither of us had anyone to separate us. We only separated when we got tired, and I looked at him.
"You are a crazy maniac, Alex. How dare you do this to Isabella? Isabella loved you with all her heart, and now all you can do is cheat on her because she's lying there in the hospital unconscious? Now you are cheating on her? Really? And why? How dare you threaten Isabella just because she left the house? Because she was angry with you, you had to threaten her to bring her back? How dare you make Isabella's life a living hell? Who are you? Why? How dare you make her so scared of you? Alex, you really changed."
I was thinking that I would be able to let go of Isabella, thinking that she was in the right hands. Now I find out that you are mistreating her.
"No, Alex, I won't take this from you. I won't take you mistreating Isabella. At least not ever."
I shouted at him angrily.
"Wow. How did you know all of this? Who told you all of this?"
"I know Trisha is not as stupid as to tell you that. All those friends suggest it. I’m saying Trisha doesn’t know much about it. She left some details out the other day, and I know she would dismiss it as... as I was angry the other day. Now who told you all of this? How did you come to know?"
"Oh no, no, no, no, no. I made a mistake. What have I done? I shouldn't have blurted out all that rubbish I said right now. I was so angry that I didn't even realize that I had said those things. Isabella doesn't want Alex to see her now, and if he finds out that she's conscious, he will want to go to the hospital to check on her. No. I can't betray Isabella like this. What have I done? My anger has clouded my judgment so much that I have to blurt this out. No. Now Alex is going to think about who told me all of this."
"I'm asking you a question, James. Who told you all of this?" Seeing as nobody knows about this, I know there's only one person who could tell you about this.
"Is it that Isabella is already conscious? Did you go to see her? Has she woken up already? Did Isabella tell you all these things that you are spewing out of your mouth? James, answer me already."
As I just stood there frozen, I couldn't say anything now; I had made a mistake. I just walked out of Alex's house without saying anything.
As I drove back on my way to the hospital, I knew that Alex would want to go there and might do something to Isabella. So I had to get there before him.
Meanwhile, as I was driving, I had to park somewhere and immediately dialed Trisha's number. She picked up after two rings.
"What's up, James? Are you home already?" She said on the speaker.
"Trisha, you are such a bad friend. Why? Why didn't you tell me about what Alex did to Isabella? Why didn't you tell me that he was ill-treating her? I was ready to give up Isabella because I thought Alex was going to treat her well. Now I only find out that Alex has not been treating her well and that he doesn't love her anymore. Why did you know about all of this? Why didn't you tell me anything so I could protect Isabella? Are you really a good friend? Is this what you want for Isabella?" I shouted at Trisha without even allowing her to speak.
"Just calm down already, James. I didn't want to tell you because I know this was how you were going to react. That's why I didn't say anything. Me and Rachel have been planning all along to separate Alex and Isabella. Because we knew what he was doing to Isabella and we didn't want her to go through all of that. We have been planning. That's why me and Rachel reconciled our friendship. We have been planning to separate the both of them." Trisha said to me, but I couldn't handle it.
"But you should have told me about everything. I would have protected Isabella more, but never mind. I need to get to the hospital right now because I know Alex might be going there already. Isabella is conscious."
I said to Trisha and didn't even allow her to say anything before I hung up the call and drove straight to the hospital. I needed to get there fast, before Alex could.
Meanwhile, seeing James storm out of his house, Alex immediately took his car keys and went to the hospital.
"Could Isabella really have gained consciousness? Yes, because there's no other person who would have told James about everything. So she regained her consciousness, and she didn't even request to see me first. She called James directly. Wow, what an ungrateful girl. I'm going to show that girl what stuff I'm really made of. I'm going to make her life a living hell. Now that she's conscious, I hope she begins to remember everything. I'm sure she has, because how else would she tell James what I have been doing? So that girl is really a..." Alex thought to himself as he drove to the hospital.
Upon getting there, he immediately ran inside to check on Isabella. As he opened the door, he saw her eating, and a doctor was there checking her and giving her medication. As she was eating, she didn't even notice that Alex was standing there at the door.
Alex just looked at her.
"Wow, she looks like someone who has woken up for a while now. And why... so why did she not call me? She called James over? This girl is really going to get it from me today."
Alex thought to himself as he looked at Isabella sternly.