Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

"Elise, if you're not feeling well, ask Gideon. I can't talk right now."

Elise's voice trembled. "Magnus, my chest hurts so much I can barely breathe. I don't want Gideon, I just want you..."

On the other end, Gideon's voice broke in, panicked. "Elise! Elise, what's wrong? Why did you faint? Magnus, her breathing's really shallow get over here, now!"

Magnus's jaw tightened, his expression hard as stone.

Without another word, he bolted for the elevator.

When it didn't come fast enough, he didn't hesitate he sprinted down the stairs instead.

Isadora watched his retreating figure, disappearing without the slightest hesitation.

All she felt was a dull numbness.

This time, curiously, there was no sharp ache.

And why should there be?

After all the times her heart had been trampled-no, sliced open by him—if she still let herself hurt for him, it might just kill her.

She stooped to pick up her keys from the floor, unlocked the door, and stepped into her apartment.

ran a hot bath, filling the

tension she'd carried

finished, Isadora slipped into a pink silk camisole nightdress,

skimming her thighs and showing

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

Isadora tensed.

Magnus have

No, impossible.

taught her anything, it was that Elise's "illness" usually lasted

a long gray robe, wrapping herself

through the peephole, she

doing here at this hour? Was something

at a business dinner that evening, and had

his driver asked where to

thinking, Victor blurted out,

wasn't until the car stopped outside that

was late-he hadn't planned to go

for a while, to be close to her, to look up at the city's star-splattered sky. Just being near

of this ordinary apartment complex. The rare, limited-edition luxury car looked utterly out

to see Magnus behind

Magnus

something happened between him and

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