Chapter 30

"If you really want to be my girl, Isadora, say it again when you're sober."

His warm breath, tinged with the night air, slipped into Isadora's ears, gentle as moonlight shimmering across a lake, sending ripples through the dark and warming her heart.

For a split second, Isadora's heart seemed to stop.

The Ace's Den.

When Scales and Sammy arrived at the private lounge, they found Magnus already halfway through a bottle, knocking back drink after drink.

The two exchanged a knowing glance.

What's gotten into Mr. Wainwright this time?

Scales ambled over, grinning. "Magnus, you're hitting the booze pretty hard tonight."

Magnus ignored him.

His mind kept replaying Isadora's final words "We're even now"-and the breakup message on his phone. No engagement. It was over.

He'd never been good at making amends-honestly, he'd never even tried. Every argument, it was always Isadora reaching out first, always the one to cave, flooding his phone with messages. Sometimes she'd send dozens; he'd maybe send one back after a meeting, if he remembered. If not? Well, she'd come around eventually.

icy indifference was something new. It felt

first step for once

set him off all

fake wedding, for crying out loud! Yet Isadora threw a fit about a kidnapping, staged a cold war, and got someone to

old Isadora, the one who went out of

him even

even told her I'd give her a real wedding, something big. She still won't accept it-what else does she want

too far, but you shouldn't have agreed to Elise's

on the couch, staring at the ceiling, his face cold and

Fine.

here tonight at The Ace's Den and

phone and opened Isadora's contact. Under her sharp "We're done" message, he typed

flashed: "Message failed to send. You

She blocked him?

She actually dared?

out a short,

look at you, Isadora. Guess you've

slammed

had been spoiled rotten since birth-good looks, money, women on his arm everywhere he went. To him, Magnus

was concerned, Isadora was just

"Magnus, if you ask me, a woman

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