Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 214

Isadora slowly opened her eyes.

She lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, her mind drifting back to last night. Scenes replayed in her memory like vivid movie clips-one after another, heated and languid, leaving her cheeks flushed just thinking about them.

They really had tried just about every position imaginable.

The sofa, the floor-to-ceiling windows, the dining table, the bathroom...

A necktie, a bottle of red wine, and-God, his mouth...

Suddenly, Isadora sat up, the covers slipping down her bare skin.

In the daylight, the bruises and marks along her collarbone and hips were shockingly visible-stark reminders of everything that had happened.

She couldn't help but regret it a little. She'd let him have his way with her completely, and they hadn't even settled the terms she wanted.

Grabbing her phone from the nightstand, Isadora quickly typed out a message.

"About what you promised me last night—are you going to keep your word or not?"

Just then, her phone began to ring.

She glanced at the screen and answered, "Laura? What's going on?"

us to tell you, but everyone here knows she really wants to

lowered her gaze, silent for

recommended a hospital stay, but

Isadora's

come by later," she said quietly, then

a text: *Running late today,

off the covers, Isadora swung her legs to the floor-immediately regretting it. Every muscle ached, as if her whole body had been taken apart and put

her

picked out a high-collared silk blouse to cover the

grabbed her

door and hurried over, but Isadora waved

the stairs to the second floor and paused in front of her parents' bedroom, just as raised

Vaughan was furious. "You can't even keep your own daughter in line! What good

should make it up to Isadora, not keep pressuring her," Eleanor

and we should use that connection to

interrupted by a

have to do—just

that,

blind eye to your affairs, and now, just because Isadora won't do what you want, you're threatening to get

family to stand among the most powerful in Capitol City. Anyone who stands in my

stormed out, not even glancing