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."

her lip, eyes burning, but forced

"I know the rules of the game, Mr.

of a devoted

ever break up, it'll

body betrayed her, shivering

you finished? Because I have work to

go of her hand with careless

door handle and

her, his deep,

at Summit Crest Estates tonight. Don't

the car door slammed shut, cutting them

for a moment beside

across her face. Somewhere in her eyes,

*

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

defeated, nothing left

by, fidgeting, her gaze darting everywhere but

just come through a war, and

fiancée of Magnus, but it's over

caught eavesdropping and

sorry, Isadora. I promise, no

looked up at the sound, "What are you two

had already composed herself on

nothing. How did

Rowena slumped even lower.

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