Is this destiny?

Leah was startled when Isabella hopped on the bed next to her.

She looked around in confusion and her sight fell on the darkness outside the window. She slept off.

"Are they gone?", Leah mumbled and turned on her belly.

"Mhm…", Isabella hummed in confirmation and her hands slipped under Leah\'s top and glided gently from Leah\'s waist up, just how Leah likes it.

Leah squirmed under Isabella\'s touch while fighting not to give in to lust which was consuming her rapidly. "Isi? Can we talk?"

Isabella\'s hands stopped for a second before they resumed moving to undo buckles of Leah\'s bra. "Later."

Leah turned around, preventing Isabella from removing her bra. "Now, please."

Isabella puffed her cheeks in frustration. "This better be important."

"It is.", Leah paused for some time while formulating question in her mind: "Do you think about our future?"

Isabella frowned. "What kind of a question is that?"

"A serious one. When you think about five, ten years from now. Where are we?"

Isabella does not like where this is going. Why is Leah asking her those questions? The two of them are enjoying the moment, what is this nonsense about ten years into the future?

"What are you getting at?"

Leah was sure that Isabella knows what Leah is talking about, but she still explained: "The fact is that we are spending less time together. And now your father is coming here frequently… I miss you. I don\'t want to have you only few hours a week. It\'s not enough."

"That will change soon.", Isabella said mysteriously.

Leah blinked. "What?"

"I\'m telling you that my father will be coming here less often."

Leah felt her heart pound rapidly from excitement. She needs to know more. "Why makes you so confident?"

"I will have a dinner tomorrow with Brandon Craig."

Leah felt that Isabella\'s words hit her like a sledgehammer in the back of her head.

"What!?", Leah said louder than she planned.

"Don\'t be upset. It\'s a perfect solution.", Isabella assured her. "I will see Brandon few times a month, my dad will think I am happily dating and get off my case. That means we get more time for us."

"When were you about to tell me that?"

"I am telling you now."

Leah shook her head. "No. You were about to fu*k me, but I said we need to talk."

Isabella was getting irritated. "What is your problem?"

"My problem? Do you ever see us going beyond this hiding?"

"What do you expect? A wedding? I told you that my father will not approve, and you agreed to be my assistant in public, while we keep our love life in private.", Isabella reminded Leah.

"Yes, I agreed. But at that time, I didn\'t realize that our private time will be shrinking like this and that you will start treating me like your mistress while you go out on a date with someone else!"

"Leah, don\'t be like that."

"Like what? In order to appease your father, you started accepting all these men in our place, and I said OK to that, but you are pushing it."

Isabella thought how Leah is unreasonable. Why is she asking for things that she can\'t get? They talked about it. And she warned Leah that her father is stubborn, and he is not a man who will give up easily. She found a solution, why can\'t Leah be happy? At the same time, Isabella thought how Leah needs a reminder: "OUR place? This is my place that my father paid for. How can I ignore him?"

"I never said that you should ignore him. But why can\'t you make time for us? He is invading into our private life, pushing me out and I miss you."

"Don\'t be so dramatic.", Isabella said impatiently.

Anger swelled inside Leah. "Dramatic? Me? Do I need to remind you how tolerant I am? I left my work and my friends to be with you. I accepted to be your assistant and to run your chores in front of everyone. Instead of telling people that we are together, I smile while bringing to you and to your guests coffee. I accepted that your father comes here and brings you potential husband candidates. And now you told me that you will have few dates on the side, and I am supposed to be OK with that? What will happen when that boyfriend asks you for more time? Every weekend? Weekdays? When he wants to spend the night here? Or asks you to marry him and have his children? Where do I fit into that story?"

Isabella stood up from the bed. "I see you are upset. We should talk about it when you calm down."

Leah grabbed her hand, preventing her from leaving. "No. We will talk about it now. Isabella, I left my life behind for you. Is it too much to ask for some clarification where this is going?"

Isabella looked at Leah with a troubled expression. How can she answer to this? She loves Leah and their time together is precious to her, but she was never able to oppose her father. Isabella knows that if Lambert hears that his precious daughter is in love with a woman, he would either have a heart attack or disown her. Probably both.

Isabella was never a fighter. When her father told her that she is set to marry a stranger (aka Jeffrey White), she didn\'t respond, but secretly she hoped that it will go away. And when Jeffrey approached her and said that he loves another woman and does not want to marry her, Isabella was happy that she does not need to go through it, but she was happier when she heard that Jeff will talk to her father because with the things being like that, Jeffrey is the one dissolving the stupid agreement and she does not need to oppose her father. Not that she had the courage to do so.

And now Leah is asking her to stand up to her father? Isabella shudders at that thought. She was not able to do it when she was a teenager, during her defiant stage. How is she supposed to stand up to him now when he is older and more stubborn than ever?

"What if I tell you that it will not get better?"

Leah could not believe that Isabella said this. At the same time, she realized that Isabella will not fight for them. Leah told herself that she should be grateful for Isabella\'s honesty and she wished that Isabella is so honest with her father as well.

"I would respond that it\'s not good enough.", Leah said in a shaky voice.

Isabella stood up and walked to the door. "We will talk about this later."

Leah watched after Isabella who walked out, and she felt her vision blurring a second before tears started rolling down her cheeks.

…

Isabella woke up in the morning and realized with a frown that she is by herself in the bed. Leah didn\'t join her the previous night. It seems that she is still sulking.

She did her morning routine and went downstairs. Based on the lack of movements, it seems that Leah is still sleeping.

Isabella went to check in Leah\'s room and was surprised that Leah is not there. Where could she be? Maybe she woke up early and went for a jog around the neighborhood. Leah does that sometimes.

Isabella went to the kitchen to make coffee, and her sight fell on the note which is on the island:

\'I am sorry, but I need more.

Thank you for everything.

~ Leah\'

Isabella read the note few times and looked on the other side, hoping that there is more to it, something she missed. Isabella noticed a key on the island. It was under the note. It is Leah\'s key to their apartment.

Isabella dashed back into Leah\'s room and only then observed that the closet is empty.

Isabella felt her legs shaking and she fell on her knees when the realization hit her hard: Leah left.

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