chapter 1

Isabella stood at the window of her room, staring out at the manicured gardens below. Despite the opulence that surrounded her, a sense of restlessness gnawed at her heart. She had always been the dutiful heiress, groomed to uphold the family name and fortune. Yet, with each passing day, a voice inside whispered that there was more to life than all of this drama. she was grounded because of her involuntary actions towards president last night, well she didnt care at all because all she wanted to do was to get out of this whole loop.

Her mother died when she was 10 and now she was having a step mother out of nowhere at the age of 19. Her father edward married again after 9 years of the death of his first love. Edward dellacroix the governor of the eldoria state was the richest and self made millionaire, he had only one child who could inherit his fortune ISABELLA DELACROIX, but it was before he married for the second time, with tiffany xandra and she brought her 18 year old daughter vanessa xandra along with her, thats when isabella's world turned upside down. Isabella the blond straight hair, ocean blue eyes, light amount of freckles on her light tanned skin with a glowy sparkly reflection, she was the true main character here. well lets hop into the story.....

as isabella was witnessing beautiful sunset from her window she was probably zoned out when she heard a loud thud...it made her come back out of her thoughts....miss sir edward is waiting for you in the lounge, get ready before coming out...wait lyla why father is waiting for me and you know i am grounded so i cant come out of my room right, yes miss isabella, wait lyla i have asked you for dont know how many times to just call me bella. miss bella the thing is that he wants to meet with you urgently, okay than take a side i am going...no wait miss dressup properly before going, what why lyla why would i dressup properly just to meet my father, the thing is that sir edward is not alone he has some guests called over for tea. I know right lyla i am getting suspicious of this whole scenerio, well whatever, i will get changed than. 

you better get changed big sister..... vanessa how can i unhear her clingy voice. i hate it, what happened isabella, lost for words???

i dont want to answer you vanessa you better get out of here.... oh my sweet sister i am going to be the heiress of delacroix fortune and you know my manipulative strenghts right,

well it will not happen until i am alive...

.oh so should i think of some other tricks "smirk was on her face and her lips upturned into v smile"

i hate it i hate every bit of her. she was the double faced bitch in front of me and a sweet little delicate rose in front of everyone else.

i wore green emerald dress with gemstones at its bottom and it was having a V neck, i loathed this dress well i put my hair in a bun and wore my signature cherry blossom lip tint, after that i joined my father for high-tea with his guests those guests were looking familiar and after thinking about i finally realized they were drey family and i again saw a familiar face from the side of my eye "NICHOLAS DREY" my childhood friend.

Nicholas was the son of leonardo and loraine drey. He and i shared alot of childhood memories together but when we were 9 they left the state for some bussiness and now after 10 years they came again, i hugged nicholas tightly and was shocked he didnt hugged me back, i looked into his eyes and his eyes were gloomy....ISA-ISABELLA are you Isabella?? 

He didnt recognize me at first glance like i did. yes Nicholas its me..you didnt recognize me at first glance, its just been 10 years we were childhood buddies right?..

.ahh bella i did recognize you but was not sure enough about it because i got the news of uncle marrying again with a women having an 18 years old daughter so i was confused.. well whatever how have you been for all these years. i know he was not like this a part of me was so sure that something has happened, something bad.. 

well i was good merely good without you.."i had a huge crush on him and still i like him but didnt have strenght to tell him that but this time i will tell him about it"

well our daughter Isabella has grown into a beautiful young girl...right loraine?..ohh yes i cant take my eyes off you dear..... so isabella you know why we are here today?? " well i was not sure but i thought it was bout me and nicholas are they asking for i blushed a little"

umm no aunt loraine how would i know... well to tell you we are here for NICHOLAS and VANESSA's marriage.....i was flabbergasted.. my eyes were turning red and my body it started to shiver.. i was lost.. devastatingly lost.. a lump was created into my throat and it was hard to swallow every bit of word that came out of aunt lorainne's mouth...."NICHOLAS AND VANESSA'S MARRIAGE" out of no where...the person who i adored, who was my bestie, who knew about my feelings for him is going to marry my stepsister that witch, who is double faced can do anything for getting delacroix fortune....i cant-i cant take it anymore...

NICHOLAS are you here to marry her....i confronted ??

ohh yes bella but i also wanted to meet with you so you know right....

so nicholas that was the reason you were shocked when i hugged you right because your soon-to-be fiance will hate it right?? i asked him with rage spilling out of my eyes.....

"AHH YESS SORT OF"