Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 443

The warehouse was dark and damp, the biting cold mixing with thick fog that seemed to seep into your bones.

A thin sheet of ice had formed across the concrete floor, sending a chill through the air that made the place feel even more desolate.

Isadora and Wendy huddled together in a corner.

Wendy was shivering uncontrollably; just a moment ago, she'd been yelling for help at the door, but now the cold had stolen her voice. She could barely make a sound.

Isadora curled into herself, arms tightly wrapped around her stomach, as if to protect something fragile inside.

Wendy glanced over at Isadora, saw her eyelids drooping, and panicked. "Isadora, please don't do this. Stay with me."

At the sound of her friend's voice, Isadora forced her eyes open, answering weakly, "I'm here..."

Wendy's words trembled on the verge of tears. "You said Victor would come for us. Why isn't he here yet?"

As she spoke, tears spilled down her cheeks, freezing almost instantly as they hit the icy floor.

Isadora wanted to reassure her, to tell her she wasn't falling asleep, but her throat felt blocked, choked by the cold and exhaustion. She couldn't manage a single word.

Her consciousness began to blur and drift.

Memories surfaced.

childhood, of Carla's

everything to be good, to be obedient, but Carla always seemed to despise her. Why

truth-Carla

The mother she dreamed of was

memories shifted; she was back at the

had resented her arrival, as if she'd disrupted their peaceful lives. Pearl's bitterness was always there, whispering, "Why did you come back and

dawned on Isadora: she'd always been a burden, someone who didn't really belong

longed for had never been as warm

Magnus, cold and aloof-until the day he knelt and

They'd all hurt her.

hurt her so

heart away, that if she hid

ever

came into

at her as

in the world.

heard his deep,

always insisted she

not, then why can't

it. After all, no

his chest, letting her feel the strong, steady beat of

heart-each thump echoing ele