The Runaway Groom

Chapter 161

Suddenly, Irene felt as if something was stuck in her chest, suffocating her.

“You’re not insisting on staying, are you?” Henry growled, seeing the look on her face. “Are you really making a bastard called Isaac daddy? Would he accept that? Do you think I would?” Irene suddenly realized that she had missed out something important–Isaac was the heir to his family’s inestimable wealth!

The greater the dynasty, the more selective they were about bloodlines.

Even if Isaac insisted that he did not mind and was willing to raise Tommy as his own, would Henry allow Tommy in the family, when the blood of the Jeffersons did not flow in his veins? It was maybe acceptable for the average family, but not for a dynasty, especially with a throne and money at stake.

Irene realized that she had been delusional. Having focused on herself and Isaac, she had ignored innumerable external elements, along with the environment where Tommy would be raised, or if she would hurt him spiritually.

She was so obsessed with herself that she had neglected him.

She was obliged to provide a stable, comfortable environment for Tommy, not a dynasty with convoluted relations.

Meeting Henry’s gaze, she said, “I’ll leave.”

attitude. “I won’t harass you

the paperwork for the divorce, since I was the one who registered your

hung her head. “I’ve let you down,

that mess. One way or another, I don’t want to see that child in my

he believed that Irene

help, since he did save her mother–if nothing else, she did. not have

She’ll replace you, but Isaac is unwilling to divorce you.

ask for

so bitter

replied with no hesitation. “Get Isaac to fall for

she bear to play matchmaker for the man she

you can’t do it?” Henry asked icily, convinced that she was already making excuses and not actually willing to

takes to control him? I can only promise to

she said, she knew that she could not refuse Henry, and must repay him for saving her mother–otherwise, he would use

future.