Chapter 210

Hearing those words, Isadora let out a cold laugh inside.

All this time, she had thought Victor felt something different for her.

Maybe he didn't love her. But perhaps, she'd hoped, he liked her at least a little.

So it turned out, everything he'd done for her lately was simply because it pleased him.

To him, she had always been just a game.

Of course. Wasn't that how she'd seen it at the start, too?

So why had she let herself get caught up in it?

Isadora turned her face away, a bitter ache rising in her chest until it stung behind

her eyes.

"What's wrong? Having second thoughts?"

Victor was angry-furious at how she always seemed to be pushing him away.

It felt like someone had stabbed a blade straight through his chest, leaving him raw and bleeding.

The more it hurt, the more he wanted her to know: She could only ever belong to him.

"Isadora, when you came to me for a spot at M Boutique, you must have known this day would come."

eyes burning,

shaky breath. "I know the rules of the game, Mr. Fitzgerald. You don't need

against her ear with the intimacy of a devoted lover, his low,

ever break up, it'll be on my

body betrayed

I

next second, Victor let go of

handle and flung the

her, his deep, velvet

Estates tonight. Don't make

reply, the car door slammed

moment beside

Somewhere in her eyes, a single

*

Seafarer Designs,

left of her usual morning

fidgeting, her gaze darting everywhere but

she'd just

of

been caught eavesdropping and blurted

sorry, Isadora. I promise, no more

at the sound, "What are you two talking

had already composed herself on

How did your meeting go

Rowena slumped even lower.

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