Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 424

Victor put on his most serious face. "Look, even if I've never been in this situation myself, I'm not completely clueless. I'm giving you a chance-give me your best suggestion."

Finley could only stare, speechless.

A chance, really? As if Victor wasn't the one out of ideas in the first place.

Well, that tracked. Mr. Fitzgerald-such a hopeless romantic.

No matter what it was, every one of his "first times" had only ever been with Isadora.

Finley straightened his tie and gave a dramatic sigh. "Alright, I suppose I can bless you with my dazzlingly romantic brain."

He grinned. "You know what's all the rage lately? Proposing underwater-imagine this: you're scuba diving, and you appear from behind a coral reef, ring in your mouth, holding a sign that says, 'Will you marry me?' It's magical, once-in-a- lifetime stuff. Isadora would have to say yes!"

He got so carried away by his own imagination, for a moment he even pictured himself proposing. But bizarrely, the woman he imagined wasn't anyone he'd ever dated-it was her. Ridiculous.

He snapped back to reality and looked up, only to find Victor eyeing him with a frosty glare. "So you want my daughter floating around in the ocean, is that it?" Victor's voice was colder than ice.

pregnant! Sorry, that

only for Victor to shoot down

to veto it-sometimes with nothing more than a look that said, "Is that really the

the end, Finley was starting to wonder

northern lights to appear. You get down on one knee as the aurora bursts across the

could be swapped for Pudding-Pudding can't exactly go to the Arctic, but we could change the setting. It's not

idea Victor didn't shoot

you in the

overheard her

outside his office, catching bits of her conversation with Eleanor. He'd almost walked in and asked

in the end,

of the Fitzgerald

to probe later, asking if she was hiding

She'd said no.

him with—just a sharp, lingering ache in