Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

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, but forced

rules of the game, Mr. Fitzgerald. You don't need to

intimacy of a devoted lover, his low,

up, it'll be

Isadora's body betrayed her, shivering at his

Because I have work to

let go of her hand with

handle and flung

his deep,

Crest Estates tonight.

reply, the car door

for a moment beside the limited-edition

tossing strands of hair across her face. Somewhere in her eyes, a single crystal tear vanished into

*

took the elevator up to Seafarer Designs, Rowena had already returned, a sheaf of

looked defeated, nothing left of her usual morning

stood by, fidgeting, her gaze

just come through a war,

unlucky fiancée of Magnus,

caught eavesdropping and

sorry, Isadora. I promise, no

at the sound, "What are you

had already composed herself on her

did your meeting go

Rowena slumped even lower.