Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 303

As Victor glanced over, Isadora seized the moment.

She ignored the well-meaning hostess who tried to help dab her dress and hurried away, her steps swift and determined.

All Victor caught was the fleeting image of a woman in a white coat-slender, her loosely pinned hair tumbling in soft waves. She slipped past like a gust of wind, vanishing through the doorway.

His dark eyes shifted, lingering on the entrance for several seconds, unreadable and shadowed, reluctant to look away.

Mrs. Fitzgerald followed his gaze, peering outside, but saw nothing but an empty corridor.

"What is it?" she asked.

Victor turned back, his expression even. "Nothing," he replied quietly.

Tonight's dinner was a formal affair: a long-awaited meeting between the Fitzgerald family and Eric and Julissa, the president and first lady of LS Capital Holdings.

powerful family whose legacy had flourished overseas, growing into one of the most influential financial dynasties abroad. Yet, despite their reach, their influence had never quite penetrated the local market. That was why, twenty years ago, they'd sought an

with the family business. You're truly fortunate," Eric

Mrs. Fitzgerald represented

brilliant mind for business. In just a few years, he's multiplied the Fitzgerald Group's assets several times over-more than his grandfather ever did. No one in Capitolion can match us

exchanged

on, "So, where's Gemma? I haven't seen her in ten years.

pride. "She just graduated and has been traveling the world ever since. But it's about

finished, Julissa cast

lifted his glass, took a

through the conversation-low, steady, and more serious than usual. “Uncle, Aunt, I'm afraid the engagement between the Fitzgerald

tension creeping in as everyone turned to

was the first to recover. "Victor, what

darling, what are you saying? This is the official meeting with your uncle and

spoke clearly and firmly. "I mean, the engagement