#17 - The Real Sterling

I was impressed the heck out of Isabella. Listening to her gut turned out to be just the thing that would save Thornfield Estates because it forced me to look closer than I had been. She was right on so many levels, except one. Unfortunately for me, that was the thing that would hurt her the most and so I had to be sure of everything before I helped her win. Or so I had been telling myself while I avoided the inevitable. "Don't over think it." Dave bumped me on the shoulder, drawing my attention from the glow of the setting I should have been enjoying from my penthouse's balcony. His sentiments were right, but how could I not over think it all when the only thing Isabella had asked of me had turned me into a villain, a messenger of death. Well, not really, but breaking her heart with wh