Never Again Yours (Isadora and Magnus) novel Chapter 144

“No.”

Isadora had no intention of thinking about him.

“But I miss you. Isadora, you hear me?”

She caught the look in his eyes—dark and fathomless, like a midnight whirlpool. It felt as if she could tumble right into his gaze and disappear.

Her heart skipped a beat.

Then, with an easy, teasing smile, he added, “All I can think about tonight is you. What am I supposed to do about that?”

Of course—she should’ve known better than to trust a word he said!

*

After hanging up, Victor’s lips curled in a faint, amused smile.

His assistant, Kemp, knocked politely before stepping in and offering a stack of documents with the deference reserved for someone far above his pay grade.

Victor strode to his desk, uncapped a pen, and signed his name at the end of the contract. Without looking up, he passed the papers back and asked, “Has my flight home on Friday been booked?”

Kemp took the file, hesitated, then gave a quiet nod.

A crisis at the regional branch had pulled Victor out of town, and there was more on his plate than any sane person would take on. Wrapping it all up in a week was ambitious, to say the least.

But since arriving, Victor had worked around the clock, somehow compressing a week’s worth of chaos into four relentless days.

And he was determined to be home before the weekend.

Clearly, something important was waiting for him.

Still, when your orders came from Victor’s grandfather—Dorian Fitzgerald himself—there was only so much you could ignore.

After a moment’s hesitation, Kemp spoke up:

“Mr. Fitzgerald, Gemma Lennox—the granddaughter of LS Capital Holdings’ chairman—has her graduation ceremony at Harvard this week. Mr. Dorian wanted me to remind you… that you’re expected to attend before heading back.”

Kemp’s voice shrank under Victor’s icy glare.

Victor’s gaze was unreadable as he looked up. “My grandfather’s orders?”