Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus)

Chapter 500

Nanette's words had barely left her lips when she swung her hand and slapped Rowena hard across the face.

The sharp crack echoed through the room.

A vivid red mark bloomed instantly on Rowena's cheek.

Rowena's mother, Keeley, looked as if she'd been struck by lightning; she swayed on her feet, unable to believe what she was hearing her own daughter, involved in something so shameful.

Tears streaming, Keeley cried out, "Sherin, tell them it's not true-tell them!"

Then she turned on Rowena, voice shaking with fury. "How could I have raised a daughter like you? You're no better than an animal!"

Rowena glared back at them all, her eyes wild and desperate. "You drove me to this! I had nowhere else to go. I begged Isadora at the hospital not to pull out the funding, but she wouldn't forgive me. She wouldn't even listen!"

Nanette, seeing Rowena's defiance, grabbed her by the collar with one hand and began raining slaps down on her face with the other-relentless, thunderous.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

Rowena's lips split, blood beading at the corners of her mouth. Her whole face swelled, flushed and battered, but the look in her eyes only grew colder, more

venomous.

"You're nothing but Isadora's lapdog, Nanette. God, I wish I'd taken you down with me!"

lashed

guard, Nanette gasped, pain shooting through her back, and her grip

opening, Rowena twisted free and slammed Nanette to the ground,

strode over and delivered

her head cracking against the edge. Blood trickled from a fresh

clutching her forehead as pain

Nanette had vented enough, Finley pulled

from the table, stormed over, and drove it deep

from Rowena's throat,

as her daughter's blood spattered the

where she

stood.

pressed to his ear, Finley heard Victor's

swallowed, nerves tightening. "Uh... Victor, what do you want

Isadora's bedside, his gaze dark and unreadable as he looked down

already knew they'd

with them,

to take revenge herself for Pudding's

the cup on the bedsheet, fingernails digging into her

exactly what