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.

a hot bath, filling the tub to

tension she'd carried while facing

she'd finished, Isadora slipped into a

her thighs and showing off her long, pale

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

Isadora tensed.

have

No, impossible.

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

wrapping herself up tight, and padded softly

the peephole, she saw

doing here at

out at a business dinner that evening, and had a few

driver asked where to

Victor blurted

outside that he realized he'd come to

late-he hadn't planned

wanted to linger downstairs for a while, to be close to her, to look up at the city's star-splattered sky. Just being near her filled him with

Rolls-Royce glided past his car, turning heads in the middle of this ordinary apartment

to see

Magnus

between him and

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