Chapter 123 One Hundred And Twenty Three

• ISABELLA POV
• When the door to my bedroom opened again, I bolted upright in bed, the sudden movement sending sharp pain reverberating through my body. Edward stood in the doorway, his face twisted with a mix of anger and something I couldn’t quite name—pain, maybe. Instinctively, I shuffled backward until my back hit the bed frame.
• It had been five days since he discovered my infidelity, and I hadn’t had a single moment of peace since. On the very first night, at midnight, he slipped into my room while I lay passed out on the floor and beat me with a wooden stick. He hit me so hard I blacked out for twelve hours. When I woke up, a private doctor was there to treat my wounds and administer painkillers. He was a quiet, old man that was around Edward’s age.