Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 499

The figure stepped inside, her movements deliberate and chilling, like a vengeful spirit come to claim what was owed.

Rowena spotted her and instantly, the color drained from her face. She stumbled backward, nearly tripping over her own feet.

"Trying to run? Where are you going to go?" Nanette's lips curled into a cold, mocking smile as she advanced, her gaze as sharp as a blade fixed on this

venomous woman.

Behind Nanette strode Finley, Kemp, and a squad of imposing bodyguards. Their presence turned the room's atmosphere to ice.

Rowena's mother recognized Nanette at once-Rowena's old friend from university, the one who had come to dinner a few times with Isadora back in the day.

She tried to put on a gracious front, moving forward to greet her. "Nanette, is that you? You really do look like a star-I see you on TV all the time. What brings you here with such an entourage?"

Nanette marched forward in her heels, completely ignoring the warm welcome. Her tone was biting. "Step aside."

harsh rebuff left Rowena's mother flustered, her smile

and our family's lost its standing, doesn't mean you can treat your elders with

hardened. "How I treat you depends on what your daughter's done. If I find out you helped her, I won't

past few days, Isadora had been in the hospital after the poisoning incident with Pudding,

to visit Isadora, and, in the hallway, overheard Victor and

hadn't hesitated-she

she might reflect and change. She had

so hot

They'd noticed Rowena's odd behavior lately: the sudden influx of money her insistence

Rowena's mother turned to her, panic in

your

ashen, her temples throbbing. She turned away,

don't listen to this woman. She's talking

mother looked at the assembled group, all of them looking so grim and dangerous it made her