Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 208

"Why didn't you tell me?" Magnus's voice trembled. "She sent you all those horrible messages. If you'd told me, I never would have "

"Would you have believed me?" Isadora cut him off, her tone cool.

Magnus fell silent, the words dying on his lips.

The truth was, Isadora hadn't stayed silent before. But back then, he'd dismissed her words as nothing more than jealousy and insecurity.

"I know there's nothing I can say or do now to make it right," Magnus said quietly, "but Isadora, I still want to apologize."

"I hear you,” she replied, her voice steady. "But that doesn't mean I have to forgive you."

A dull thud echoed through the hallway.

Magnus's face went ashen. Slowly, he bent one knee, then the other, finally kneeling before her.

From around the corner, Wendy gasped and clamped a hand over her mouth, barely stifling the sound.

So Isadora was the fiancée? Then what was all that nonsense she'd been spouting earlier? The rumors weren't adding up at all. By the look of it, Mr. Wainwright was still very much in love with Isadora.

momentarily taken

what are you doing?" she

pride

you. I don't expect you

give me one chance to

still love

her expression

doesn't mean anything to me

long as you once loved me, I can't

her eyes. "Then go ahead and kneel

but Magnus seized

give me

shake him off, but his grip

poised, one hand in his pocket, the other holding a bouquet of

a word, he tossed the lavender

of panic shot through Isadora. She wrenched her hand free from Magnus and hurried

rushed to catch up. Wendy's eyes grew wide as saucers. Was this some sort of romantic battlefield? And who was that impossibly handsome man? Isadora certainly didn't

rode the elevator down

Rolls-Royce waited at the