Isabella was different now.
Lately, Susan was starting to think Ethan had changed too. Maybe he wasn’t as cold toward Isabella as everyone thought.
Susan decided she should probably change a little herself, maybe start treating Isabella better. If Ethan ever did fall for her, being kind to Isabella might be the best way to keep her job as housekeeper.
“She hung up on Natalie’s call, and that really set me off,” Ethan said, frustration clear in his voice. “If she’s rude to me, fine, I can deal with it. But if she’s disrespectful to Natalie, that I can’t accept.”
“I never even raise my voice at Natalie. I treat her like she’s the most important person in my life, and Isabella dares to act like that with her?”
“Does she really not get how I feel about Natalie?”
Susan didn’t know what to say.
What was she supposed to do now? Ethan was still hopelessly in love with Natalie, after all. Maybe she’d been overthinking everything.
Ethan and Natalie had grown up together. That kind of love, more than a decade in the making, wasn’t something you could just forget. Sure, Ethan had known Isabella for almost twenty years too, but those three months of fake dating before they got married didn’t mean much. Since the wedding, they’d slept in separate rooms. They were husband and wife by name only.
Could Ethan really fall for Isabella?
“Ethan, Isabella loves you. If you throw her things out over Natalie, that’s going to hurt her a lot,” Susan said, trying to keep her tone gentle.
“She probably hung up on Natalie because she was jealous. Natalie is her rival, after all.”
“Her rival,” Susan repeated, her voice a little sharper.



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