Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 19

Pearl dashed upstairs, storming into her bedroom.

Without hesitation, she began hurling everything in sight-pillows, perfume bottles, picture frames—anything within reach went crashing to the floor.

Even with the door shut, the furious clatter echoed down the hall, unmistakable to anyone nearby.

Laura stood waiting outside with the family doctor, hesitant to knock.

She'd worked for the Vaughan family for over twenty years, not just as a maid but as the housekeeper who knew every secret and every child's temperament.

Laura had watched Pearl grow up-headstrong, willful, always used to getting her way. Back when everyone believed she was the Vaughan family's real daughter, her outbursts were tolerated, even indulged.

But now, with the truth out and Pearl exposed as an imposter, nothing about her had changed. If anything, her temper had gotten worse behind closed doors.

Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan could possibly be thinking. Why keep this pretender around? Isadora

stopped. The chaos she'd unleashed

Magnus was there to back her up—and their parents, of course, had taken her

beloved, then Pearl would simply tear him away from her. She would make sure

lips curled into a cruel smile as she pulled out

her in the hospital, and the two had hit it

sending her message, Pearl finally

to tend the angry bruises

the music, letting the gentle strains of a waltz fill the

at Isadora's stubbornness over the diamond necklace, but seeing Magnus so protective of her, she forced herself to swallow

status mattered to her. And no matter Isadora's flaws, she

Vaughan family had finally made a connection with the illustrious Wainwrights. Eleanor decided to strike while the iron was hot, planning to bring up the

before she could say anything, Isadora swept Magnus away