Chapter 40 Heartbreak

• Edmund left soon after they had breakfast. Isabella was not only feeling disappointed, she was suffering a heartbreak.
• She knew they could not have been more different from the very beginning, and she was aware that sooner or later they were bound to follow their own separate paths, yet she was still unprepared for the painful sensation his words triggered in her body.
• ‘Was this what fate had in store for me? To encounter the man of my dreams, have him and then lose him in a matter of days?’