Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 78

Seeing Isadora sobbing uncontrollably, everyone assumed she must've been badly hurt in the accident.

Someone rushed over, anxious. "Are you alright? Did you get hurt somewhere?"

Isadora had scraped her leg; blood trickled down her shin. But what stung far more was the future she saw slipping away into darkness.

She just kept crying, her voice breaking. "My college... It's gone. I lost it all."

Later, to make up for hitting her, Magnus promised he'd replace her lost college acceptance letter.

Isadora didn't believe him. Who would?

But the next day, to her utter shock, the dean of the most prestigious university in the city arrived in person, letter in hand.

In that instant, Magnus—and that acceptance letter-became the salvation of Isadora's seventeen-year-old life.

A year later, she started college. While working a part-time job, she ran into Magnus again.

Isadora had never chased after anyone before. If you could even call it "chasing❞—it was more like offering her heart, raw and sincere, to the boy she'd fallen for at seventeen.

Until one day-

finally stopping right in

tinted window rolled down, revealing

wait here for me every day? What

don't mean anything by it. I just wanted to

"You like me?"

"... Yeah."

barely a whisper, trembling with

studied her for a long moment before asking, "How long do

up, meeting his

"Forever."

away

grow up, Magnus. For five years, I've loved you with everything I have. I gave this relationship my

just take my promise for granted. You assume I'll always be waiting in the wings for you. In your eyes, my love must be worthless-how else could you hurt me so

shook-not just because of the man in front of her, but because remembering five years of heartbreak

eyes.

brow furrowed, irritation

Mrs. Wainwright. What more could she possibly

because he didn't reply to every message? Because he didn't always pay attention to her feelings? Because

fight over

had no desire to argue again tonight. There was no point. Every time they fought, it ended the same way:

said, "Isadora, fine, fine—it's all my