Chapter 482 Isabella is dead
From that day on, Sebastian never came back to Willowbrook Estate.
Isabella couldn't lie to herself. She felt relieved, but she missed someone she shouldn't.
A week after Sebastian left, Isabella called Brittany to check on her miscarriage.
Brittany's voice was super dry. After a long pause, she said, "Isabella, I decided not to go through with the abortion."
Isabella was shocked. Then Brittany added, "Joshua hurt me for a reason. He has mid-stage stomach cancer and wanted to push me away. I hate his decision, but I can't leave him. I want to stay with him and our baby and fight for a future."
Isabella was stunned for a long time. So, Joshua was sick. After a while, she found her voice and said, "You will. Love is powerful and can create miracles."
Brittany let out a low, bitter laugh.
But that laugh held hope and the future.
For the next week, Isabella was exhausted. She suddenly got the saying that no one could predict which would come first, an accident or tomorrow.
She started to wonder if it was better to stubbornly dwell on the past or to let go and forgive, seeking a future.
Isabella couldn't decide, but she seemed to lean towards forgiveness.
However, in the seventh month of her pregnancy, the day before she was supposed to meet Sebastian again, an accident happened.
She came out of the greenhouse at Willowbrook Estate, and Samuel's car pulled up outside. He told her at the door, "Mrs. Wallace passed away a month ago, driven to death by Lynda. Sebastian hasn't seen you for a month because he feels guilty. If he hadn't let Lynda go, Mrs. Wallace wouldn't have died."
As he said this, Samuel's eyes flickered slightly. With just one look, Isabella could have seen that Samuel was lying.
Unfortunately, Isabella didn't notice.
Isabella stood there, stunned, shaking her head repeatedly. "Impossible. What are you talking about? Impossible! How could Grandma have an accident? If something had happened, why wouldn't I know anything about it?"
Samuel said, "All news about her was blocked by Sebastian, and I couldn't contact you. You haven't left this villa, so how would you know? Isabella, your mother is my aunt. You are a child of the Carter family. Come with me and leave this sad place."
However, Samuel didn't get a response from Isabella.
Isabella's vision went black, her heart contracted sharply, and she felt short of breath. She shakily took out her phone, but before she could unlock the screen, her wrist went limp, and the phone slipped from her hand. She staggered back several steps and fainted heavily to the ground.
At that moment, Sebastian was boarding a plane at the airport.
He was bringing back the good news that Janet would wake up in a year.
After a month of continuous busyness, Sebastian closed his eyes and leaned back in his seat, a smile playing on his lips. He thought, 'God blessed me and Isabella. We still have a future to look forward to.'
With hope in his heart, the plane landed ten hours later, and Sebastian set foot in Maple Valley again.
He rubbed his nose and turned on his phone.
As soon as he turned it on, his phone rang incessantly. The caller was Joshua. Sebastian frowned and answered, "What's up?"
There was a long silence on the other end.
Sebastian's heart skipped a beat. "Speak!"
"I'm at the airport, right in front of you. Get in the car."Sebastian looked up and met Joshua's sorrowful and sympathetic gaze. His body wavered slightly.
Every step towards Joshua's car felt like he was dragging a ton of bricks.
The whole ride was dead silent. Joshua didn't say a word, and Sebastian didn't ask. After half an hour of this heavy silence, Joshua's car stopped outside Maple Valley Cemetery.
"What do you mean?" Sebastian's voice was hoarse, like an old bellows, making an unpleasant sound.
Joshua closed his eyes, resting his elbow on the car window and covering his eyes. "About ten hours ago, Samuel went to Willowbrook Estate and told Isabella that her grandmother died from the shock caused by Lynda. Isabella couldn't take it and had a massive hemorrhage."
Sebastian felt a chill all over his body, his hands trembling uncontrollably.
"And what does that have to do with this place?" Sebastian asked, his voice shaking. "Why bring me to the cemetery?"
"Massive hemorrhage, premature birth, she didn't make it. Only a child was left behind," Joshua said in a low voice. "Isabella was the granddaughter of the Carter family. Nathan, from the Carter family personally came, and your family couldn't intervene. They could only let him take the body, cremate it, bury it, and erect a tombstone."
Sebastian was so enraged that he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Impossible." His thin lips trembled as he repeated, "Impossible. This can't be true."
Joshua couldn't accept the reality either, let alone Sebastian. But Joshua had to tell him the truth, "It's true. Nathan was there the whole time. He's at Isabella's tombstone now. You can go ask him."
Sebastian walked like a zombie to Isabella's tombstone.
A crowd had gathered in front of the tombstone: William, Byron, Jarod, Amber, Brittany, and Emily, as well as an unfamiliar old man, Nathan.
Everyone's face was filled with pain and sorrow.
"You kept making Isabella retreat step by step for your sake. Now she's dead, because of Lynda and you. Are you satisfied?"
"Why didn't you tell Isabella about Mrs. Wallace's death? You hid it from her, kept her locked up. How could you do this!"
Voices filled with grief and anger echoed.
Sebastian couldn't tell who was speaking. All he saw was a white blur and a tombstone.
In the photo on the tombstone, Isabella was smiling, as if she were smiling at him.
The memories were so vivid. How could she be dead? Sebastian didn't believe it.
He pushed aside the people in front of him, squatted at the tombstone, and started digging with his hands. He had to see the body!
William hit him on the back with his cane, cursing, "Are you crazy? She's dead. What are you doing? If you knew this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?"
Sebastian coughed up blood onto the tombstone. The blood was slowly washed away by the falling rain, turning into long streaks of red.
Sebastian seemed to have lost all sense of pain. He kept digging, his hands rubbing against the rough ground, the skin breaking and revealing the flesh underneath.
William cried continuously and wanted to stop him, but Nathan held him back. Nathan said to Sebastian, "The dead cannot come back to life."
Sebastian turned his head, his eyes bloodshot. He said, "She's not dead. You took her away, right?"
He looked around for Samuel, but couldn't find him. His eyes filled with a crazed hope. "Samuel took her!" he said with certainty.
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