Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 277

A few moments passed.

Then a man's cold, deep voice echoed through the grand hall.

"And what if I refuse?"

Victor looked up, his dark eyes glinting with an icy indifference as he cast a chilling glance across the room. That look alone made Deanna feel as if the air itself pressed down on her shoulders.

In that instant, she realized-slowly, but unmistakably-that her grandson was no longer under anyone's control.

Dorian's health had long since forced him to step back from the family's affairs; in reality, he'd been on the sidelines for years. The responsibility to uphold the Fitzgerald family's order, discipline, and century-old traditions now fell squarely on her shoulders. She would not allow any unexpected variable to threaten the very foundation of the Fitzgerald legacy.

Deanna opened her mouth to speak, but her gaze inadvertently landed on the faint marks on Victor's neck. Her expression darkened at once.

about

her words, his gaze

the Fitzgerald family's rigid rules. She would never permit a woman of questionable background to set foot in their home. That was precisely

Deanna took in his stony expression, her heart sank. She had only mentioned the woman's name, and already Victor was growing this defiant, this uncontrollable. How

You can't get serious with her. Her

and sharp, his voice icy. "So you went behind my back to harass her, is

Victor stood up for Isadora, the more Deanna's face hardened. Without a word, she nodded to the butler, who stepped

woman she is? She's clever, I'll give her that. She came to me, offered to trade you for money, for her precious Vaughan family. That thirty percent stake in the Vaughan Group? I gave it to her

it without the slightest concern. So that was why she'd gone back to work at the Vaughan

voice cool and dismissive. "And what of it? If she

face went white-then

to go this far for