Shattered Vows, Unspoken Love

ends meet. Isabella Stone was the daughter of the city's wealthiest tech mogul, bright, popular, and completely o

privilege. They were the perfect couple. Israel would watch them in the hallways, a familiar

he saw her again. She was sitting alone in the university library, looking smaller and more vulnerable than

. She was smart, driven, and had a deep-seated fear of not living up to her family's expectations. He found him

with. His feelings for her deepened into a quiet, steady love, but he never spo

Stone Industries. "I need people I can trust, Izzy," she' d said.

art broke, but he smiled and congratulated her, burying his pain so deep s

ame th

ophic electrical failure. The building went up in flames with her and her mother, Harrie

on the street, watching the building burn, his

her unconscious mother through the thick, black smoke. He threw Harriet over his shoulder and guided a

ma. Buddie, seeing the extent of Harriet's injuries and the potential for a corporate scandal, disap

lt and grief. And Israel was there. He never left her side. He sat with her in the h

ut in a long-term facility. He learned her medical routines,

to her work, and with Israel' s quiet support, she saved the com

, she turned to him, her eyes filled w

asked. "Why are

at her, his hea

touched his face.

to do this. You don't owe me anything." He h

n serious. "No," she said, her voice firm. "It's

er so badly that he ignored the small,

ty, no honeymoon. Afterward, they went home, and Israel helped Isabella with a new

managed the household, and was Harriet' s unwavering caregiver. He put his own

te, exhausted from work, and

" she would say,

ways replied. "I love you. That's w

only the sound of a ventilator for

earn through devotion. And gratitude, he now realized