Chapter 187

Isadora's face stiffened, the rest of her words dying in her throat.

She ignored him after that.

Half-reclining on the hospital bed, she busied herself texting Nanette.

Nanette was filming overseas, and the moment she heard what happened to Isadora, she wanted to catch the next flight back.

But Isadora talked her out of it.

The injury wasn't that serious-just a bad knock to her right leg, making it tough to walk for now.

A week in the hospital, and she'd probably be discharged.

Nanette: "So, did you tell Magnus today that Elise was behind the kidnapping?

How did he react? Did he believe you?"

Isadora: "No idea."

Nanette: "Guess last time's 'strip and shame' lesson didn't stick for Elise. Just wait till I get back and give her a piece of my mind!"

Isadora hadn't mentioned that Elise had slept with Magnus.

It would only make her seem bothered by it.

Even though, the second she heard, she'd felt utterly sick.

does your prince charming know you fell

save you? Did he get jealous and throw a

this were a TV show, the leading man would be drowning

that

A temper? Oh, definitely.

eat her alive, for crying

gaze wandering to the balcony, where Victor was on the

with a private bathroom, a

stood out there, tall and broad-shouldered, one elegant hand holding a black phone to his ear, the

voice, cold enough to freeze water, drifted back inside-like someone owed him

he was inflicting on the poor soul at

chill and distance he radiated, the unapproachable aura of someone used

of bringing up the topic

with Victor's granite-hard temperament, she wisely kept her mouth

Time ticked by.

shifted restlessly on the

Victor,

her hospital room into his personal office,

considering whether to ask him for help, then

prepared a nutritious meal. I'm on my way back

The nurse?

remembering the nurse's earlier knowing,

she could disappear into the floor-no way she was calling

squeezed her

between the bed and the bathroom, she weighed her

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