Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 109

Genevieve's voice rang out, clear and loud.

Victor was sitting right beside Isadora, so he had no trouble catching every word of the phone call.

Isadora lifted a hand, as if to shield the conversation, but it didn't do much to muffle the sound.

The grand, luxurious living room was empty except for her and Victor.

Isadora lowered her voice. "Genevieve, now's not a good time."

On the other end, Genevieve stood outside the door of a private suite in an exclusive hospital.

She'd just returned from overseas a couple of days ago and was still out of the loop about what had happened in Capitolion.

To her shock, she'd barely set foot back home when she heard that her brother, Magnus, had been rushed from the office to the hospital that very day.

Magnus had even insisted the doctors not inform the rest of the Wainwright family.

So now, only Genevieve and a few of Magnus's brothers knew what was going

on.

The doctor's diagnosis was clear: overwork, poor eating habits, a severe migraine, and a perforated ulcer-one thing piling onto another.

Just then, a nurse finished hanging a fresh IV bag and slipped out of the room.

Peeking through the crack in the door, Genevieve could see Magnus, pale and gaunt, lying in bed.

His long fingers pressed against his stomach, brows furrowed tight in pain.

Even now, his features were sharp and cold, but there was a fragility about him that Genevieve had never seen before.

In the past, Magnus never would've ended up here. If he so much as caught a cold, Isadora would be by his side in a heartbeat, fussing over him, treating him like he was the center of her world.

But when Genevieve arrived at the hospital, she only saw Scales and Sammy in the room-not Isadora. It struck her as odd.

"Where's Isadora? My brother's been hospitalized, and she's nowhere to be found?"

hothead, scoffed, "Isadora? She's breaking up

couldn't believe it. Isadora loved her brother with a devotion bordering on reckless; Genevieve herself had played matchmaker

Isadora

"Why not? She's grown a backbone. She wouldn't even have a place in the Vaughan family if not for Magnus's fiancée status. Now she's got an attitude-one little problem and she's all over Magnus, trying to keep him in

from Scales making it worse. He spoke through

to buy

she'd stepped out to make

rotten temper, but don't hold it against him. He's in the hospital now- migraine,

seemed to freeze, the atmosphere

chair, eyes half-lidded, a sardonic

must be out of her

coughed lightly and glanced up. Victor hadn't moved, but his presence sent a

shielded the phone more tightly, and replied in a measured voice, "Genevieve, Magnus and I have broken up. He's in the hospital, but the doctors will take care of him. I really can't talk

up before Genevieve

that if the call had gone on any longer, the whole room

echoed from the phone, but it was too

only to find Isadora's phone was now

the screen

on earth had Magnus done this

push away a woman who'd once loved him so much she'd risked everything for him-so much so

of this

her high heels clicking sharply

the door and looked up, dark eyes searching hopefully-only to dim again when he

strode to the side of the bed,

do? How did you mess things up with Isadora- the best thing

the pot, piped up. "He didn't do anything-just staged a fake wedding with Elise, ditched Isadora on her birthday to be with Elise, played the

darkened to something dangerous, his voice cold with fury.

making Scales shudder. "Fine, fine, don't get worked

are plenty of women

Genevieve bristled, anger flaring.

his

woman, she couldn't stand hearing

is she just obsessed with you? Either way, you're no innocent in this mess. After what