Chapter 85

In truth, it was I who insisted on this. Given his relationship with Isabella, it wouldn’t be a big deal for him to celebrate her birthday. Had this been any other time, if Alexander had gone to celebrate Isabella’s birthday, I might not have reacted so strongly. After all, the bond between them wasn’t something that could just be severed. It was complicated, something that couldn’t be erased so easily. But our wedding anniversary happened to fall on the same day as her birthday. No one would allow their husband to insist on spending that day celebrating another woman’s birthday. From the very start, I could never compare to Isabella. I never could, and I never would. “I was just planning to drop off the gift and leave…” “Drop off the gift and leave?” I sneered. “Do you really think you could have? That night, you left in the middle of the night and didn’t come back until the early hours. Did you think I wouldn’t notice? I woke up when you were on the phone!” Alexander’s fa