Chapter 78 - Ghost From Past

The next day, the doctors were hopeful that Isabelle could wake up anytime soon. They were supposed to bring her to Albert Scuderi's room as soon as she would wake up. These were the orders given by Nico to them. Nobody knew what was happening with the Scuderi family, especially Ginevra and Nico, they ordered everyone working in the hospital not to leave the hospital. 

When Isabelle woke up the next time, she realized it was already the next day. So, she had been sleeping for more than a day. It was early in the morning when doctors found Isabelle conscious, they informed her about Albert's condition and said how he wanted to meet her once. 

Without thinking about anything she asked them to take her to her husband. The doctors saw how her full eyes twinkled when she heard the happy news from the doctors. 

Thus, as soon as she woke up she ordered someone to take her to her husband right away. 

Perhaps, she wasn't told by anyone that Albert could die any moment now. He had been holding on just to talk to her one last time. 

Then, the doctor helped her to sit on a wheelchair and took her to Albert's room. Just as her wheelchair stopped near his bed they recalled how. Nico had ordered everyone to leave the room. 

His grandfather wanted to have this last moment with his wife alone. 

And as his grandson, it was his duty to fulfill his last wish. 

"Albert," She whispered. Her voice was so soft and low that if he wasn't dying to hear her talk to him one last time, he would not have heard her. She was stunned as she watched his body connected to tubes and various machines. 

"Belle?"Albert opened his eyes. His gaze carried sadness and a flicker of betrayal. Even though he knew he was dying, he was assured that with Nico around his young wife would not suffer. 

"Why did you do that?" Albert asked her in utter grief. "You don't lack anything…"

"I can ask you the same question, Albert Scuderi." Isabelle's pitiful face turned sinister. "You don't lack anything… Yet, you did it. Why?"

Albert had waited all this time, of course, he couldn't miss hearing who she did it. The accident in which he and she were injured was planned by her. He had known it, yet, he didn't say anything to his son and grandson. He just wanted to know before dying why she did it. 

Instead, he asked Nico to take care of Isabelle after his death. 

Was this how she chose to repay his love? 

"You never loved me…"It wasn't a question but a realization. Isabelle never loved him truly. All those years she was pretending to be a good wife. 

When he was injured in the car she didn't try to save him. She even whispered in his ear that it was his time to go. His retribution had arrived. He wanted to know what she meant by those words. 

The price he had to pay for carrying Isabelle was huge. Yet, he didn't back out from this marriage with her. He killed her wife for this young woman. His own son was ready to end all his ties with him if he insisted on marrying Isabelle but he didn't care. 

While chasing Isabelle, he did everything in his power to make her return his feelings. It wasn't easy for him to make her love him. When she admitted that she was in love with him and was afraid of loving such an old man. He promised her secrecy if that's what she wanted. However, she surprised him by refusing his kind offer. 

Instead, she announced that she would never be a mistress or a third woman who had ruined someone's home. In desperation, he had to kill his wife just to give Isabelle legal status in his life. And he never told her that he was her wife's murderer. 

He did everything in his power to make her happy and loved. 

But look what she did to him? 

She drove him to the brink of death! 

She was poisoning him all these years. 

And finally, she was going to be free. She planned that accident a long time ago. 

"Why?" He just wanted to know what wrong he had done to her. 

"Elena Moore," Isabelle whispered as her bloodshot eyes stared right back into his dead ones. 

Albert felt the hair on his body standing up. 

Penelope's half-sister. 

He had never thought that even after two decades his past would come back to haunt him. The name he had banned everyone from taking in front of him was back like a starving ghost to bite him. 

Especially when he was dying… 

How could he admit what he had done to Elena?

He was a heinous monster but he could never accept it out loud. 

However, he wanted to know how Isabelle knew about Elena. 

"You are…" he closed his eyes as realization hit him. 

"Her only child," Isabelle answered with another sinister smile. Her voice, which had been soft since the beginning, took a big turn. Even though she was whispering, the bloodlust that she was emitting wasn't hidden from him, "Albert Scuderi, who does it feel to lose everything in the end? I wasn't your redemption but retribution. When you r*ped and killed her…. Didn't you fear that one day there would be someone waiting to collect the tolls?"

"Don't," Alberto begged her. He couldn't bear to hear what he had done. Elena Moore was his biggest sin. What he had done to her didn't let him sleep at night. 

Only he knew how badly he wanted to go back to time and undo everything! 

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Author Note: This arc will be ending in this mini mass release. Please read until the end of this arc to uncover the big secret. 

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