His fear only provoked my anger and distress. The more he spoke the more I felt like it had something to do with Isabella. She was the only reason for me to lose my mind and Bruce knew that.
I got up from the chair and faced him with an angry glare. “I’m not going to ask again, let me see the card.”
He hesitated at first but eventually did as I asked.
I took the flimsy card between my fingers and scanned the words.
“What the f**k is this?”
Bruce look worried at my tone. “I asked you not to overreact. The council is remarrying Isabella to the man she was originally supposed to get married too before they gave her to you.”
The invitation dropped from my hand and I grabbed Bruce by his collar before I could stop my own reaction to his words. “What the hell are you saying to me Bruce?”
His brows rose in confusion. “I’m not the one you need to direct your anger to. It’s the council remarrying Isabella … not me.”
It took a moment for my head to clear and I suddenly realized what I was doing. I let go of him and took a step back.
They were planning on getting her married? I held my head like it was about to explode and before I could stop myself I grabbed a chair and slammed it into the wall.
“HUnTER!” Esma screamed in panic. I couldn’t hear her though, I was losing control.
Anger laced through me mixed with feelings of panic.
no.
This was not happening.
I would never allow that to happen. Isabella belonged to me, she knew it, I knew it, it was time for the world to know it as well!
………
***ISABELLA***
I knew something was wrong when my brothers didn’t come to greet me as soon as I pulled back up to the council. They must have been worried sick about me, so then why was no one here to greet me?
“Where are my brothers?” I demanded from Vincent.
I knew he held something against them, he always had. The smirk on his face told me plenty.
My eyes narrowed. “Why aren’t my brothers here to greet me?”
He sighed. “Let me tell you something about your brothers Isabella. They’re getting too comfortable around here. They feel like they could get away with anything. They tried to ruin the wedding arrangement between you and Jerome. Of course we had to do something about that.”
My lips trembled as I glared at the monster. “What did you do?”
“They’re in the dungeons. You can go pay them a visit. I’m sure they will be happy to see their sister.” He said.
I had already turned to leave when I heard him speak again. “You might not see them for the wedding. The prosecutor and I think that its best your brothers sit this one out. We’re just teaching them a lesson for going against us. This punishment was long overdue.”
A few minutes later and I wasn’t running fast enough to my brothers. I slipped the shoes out of my feet and ran down the stairs that led to the brutal dungeon.
What could my brothers have done to be put inside of here? This was exactly what I was avoiding! I didn’t want any of my family members to suffer because of me, it wasn’t fair to them. If I had to suffer I would do it alone, I didn’t want anyone to have to experience pain. My family went through enough already; I didn’t want to be the cause for more sufferings.
I winced as I saw them.
I covered my mouth with my hands. There was b***d all over their bodies. Their eyes were closed and they looked like all the life had been sucked out of their bodies.
I stumbled forward towards the locked cell that prevented me from running straight into their arms. I felt the tears start to fall the moment Ermanno opened his eyes and tried to smile at me.
“Isabella.” He croaked.
At my name all of my brothers opened their eyes as well. Marcus tried to grin and Thane tried to raise his hand to wave at me. nolan looked like he didn’t want me to see him in here and Luthais looked like he wanted to cry.
Oh God.
My brothers!
What had the council done to them?
“Don’t c-cry.” Thane coughed up b***d as he tried to speak to me.
“We’re fine.” Marcus lied. “We will heal quickly.”
“I need to try and get you out of here!” I cried. “How could they put you in here? What did you do to deserve this kind of punishment?”
nolan coughed. “We tried to attack the prosecutor after he told us that there was no way he was stopping your wedding.”
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