The Runaway Groom

Chapter 127

As Lionel stepped inside his ward, he told Samantha, “You can leave. I don’t need you here.”

Samantha quickly tried to appease him. “You can’t be alone, right? I’ll stay.”

However, Lionel had already seen through her and what she wanted.

“You just want my inheritance, don’t you?” he asked, exposing her right then.

“No!” Samantha quickly explained. “I’m fine without it, but you have to take care of Ricky. He has a criminal record, and there’s every chance he won’t get a good career. You have to think of him!”

Lionel was not bothered with her rant, and simply lay down in bed!

Was he that stupid that he would not look after his own son?

Meanwhile, Irene had left quietly, and Ricky followed her out of the building.

“Sis,” he called out to her.

Turning to look at him with an impassive expression, she asked, “What?”

“I heard that you’re the one who got a specialist to help Dad,” Ricky said earnestly, his .hostility toward her before nowhere to be seen. “Thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me. He’s my father too,” Irene replied, and left.

had nothing else to talk

the

name was Kathy Young, and she was a secretary that Stan

secretary and did not need

inexperienced, and had nothing going for her aside from a certification from a

for her looks, and she

“Mr. Jefferson…”

despondent when Isaac

to come downstairs,” Isaac coolly told her, and

intimate one moment, and icily distant

was new here and should not ask too many questions, and did as she was told. When Stan arrived downstairs, he

Does that mean he

but tended to fumble when it came to Irene perhaps he was having tunnel vision,

was also why

was despondent to see that Irene could smile

convinced that Stan’s idea was a dud Irene was not jealous

sure she’s not pretending?” Stan

send that woman away,” Isaac snapped, and

was already giving up on a good

might not be enough for Irene to see them together

inside the building, he found

I make a mistake?” she