Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 468

Go on, keep praising her. Heap on every compliment you can.

This was exactly the effect she wanted.

She wanted her daughter to become the most dazzling debutante in Capitolion, the star of every party, the envy of every eye.

And if, by some stroke of luck, she could one day marry better than Isadora-well, that would be the dream come true.

But just then, right in the midst of this harmonious atmosphere-

A sudden, jarring voice blared from the speakers mounted along the charity gala's gilded walls, drowning out the gentle music from the grand piano.

"No way... Olivia, you actually... killed her."

The words struck like a bolt of lightning, leaving everyone in the hall stunned, mouths agape.

Another voice followed, cold and resolute: "Yes, it was me. If she hadn't died, who knows, maybe they would have traced everything back to me."

"Olivia, you're ruthless."

"Ruthless? What was I supposed to do, just let them find out I was the one who let that wretched Isadora into the warehouse and opened the freezer, hoping she'd freeze to death? That was my idea, wasn't it?"

"Too bad that woman and her unborn child survived. If she'd lost the baby, she'd be worthless to Victor, and none of this would have happened."

the hall, like some terrible nightmare come to

gala was frozen in

such vile things so calmly? People began searching for the source of

in

an instant, all eyes in

wolves scenting blood. They surged forward, desperate not

entire

horror as

drained from her face, leaving

below-gossipmongers, accusers, the righteous and the ravenous—all

the terror in her eyes.

"Aah!"

priceless cello in a

thud, the instrument

her feet, desperate to escape this

a few steps before the journalists swarmed in forming an impenetrable

of my way! Don't you understand this

Someone's

scene descended

Andrina was completely dumbfounded, spinning in

earth