Chapter 222 - Panicking

Henry Jackson stood frozen in the middle of Isabella Voss's guest bedroom, his world still reeling from the bombshell she'd just dropped. The air was thick with the scent of lavender, meant to calm, but it did nothing to soothe the storm raging inside him. His hands trembled as he reached for his phone on the nightstand—the device that had been his lifeline, now silent and powered off for nearly five days. He'd shut it down in a haze of fever and heartbreak, desperate to escape the notifications, the calls, the reminders of Eliana Bennett slipping further from his grasp. But now, with Isabella's words echoing in his ears—"She's already married"—he couldn't hide anymore.