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.”

with her attitude. “I won’t harass you since

handle the paperwork for the divorce, since I

hung her head. “I’ve let you down, even though you saved

don’t want to see that child in my house, and

believed that Irene was obligated to help after the mess she

her mother–if nothing else, she did. not have

a woman named Kathy York who is working for Isaac. She’ll replace you, but Isaac is unwilling to divorce you. As such, I want you to

I ask for something else?”

did not want things to be so bitter with Isaac even if

Henry replied with no hesitation.

actually better! How could she bear to

Henry asked icily, convinced that she was already making excuses

it takes to control him? I can only promise to do my best, but

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

future.