The Runaway Groom

Chapter 165

With those words, Irene turned to Sheryl. “Let’s go, Mom.‘

Sheryl quickly followed Irene out of Spencer Mansion, which had become a bleak place since Lionel’s death.

“What did your father say in that letter?” she asked when they were out–it had been gnawing at her for a while, but she did not ask immediately since Samantha and Ricky were around.

“Dad asked me to take care of Ricky,” Irene replied.

Sheryl laughed icily. “What is he thinking? Entrusting you with that boy? Is he that sure that you can accept such an arrangement? Even if you do, I won’t.”

After all, Samantha had groomed Ricky since she was a child, and he was therefore heavily influenced to become just like her.

“That’s why Dad gave me evidence of Samantha attempting to murder me. He’s trying to appease me.”

In reality, Irene thought that Lionel was a little heartless–Samantha had been with him since her youth, even giving him a son despite having no legitimate ties to him.

But in the end, he left her with nothing.

tragic, and it made evident how cold people could

just so that you have

was certain that was Lionel’s

have you ever loved him?” she

she spoke with melancholy after a long silence. “Of course. I wouldn’t have married him otherwise–I’ve even been delusional about him, not demanding a divorce

“Do you hate him?”

hate? He’s gone, and my head is

if Sheryl had felt hatred and lamented, she was now mostly

grievances between

dusted in just a few days.

Mansion as a child, and Lionel clearly intended to keep it within the family, which was why he passed it down to

understood Lionel’s intention, and moved in with Sheryl and Tommy–with this, she did not have to buy a

1/2

because she

decision to leave the company under her

company in her hands,