The Runaway Groom

Chapter 348

Then, she felt herself fall into a firm, warm embrace!

She curled up by instinct, and turned to look at Isaac, asking softly, “What are you doing? You scared me.”

Isaac watched her and growled, “You’re the one who stayed naked to seduce me.”

Irene was speechless. She did not even want to be naked, and he was the one she was for!

She whispered pleadingly, “Look, I’m tired, and I’m really late.”

“Yeah,” he said softly and carried her into the shower… and then did nothing.

She had been losing weight, which made him restrain himself.

Suddenly, Mrs. Watson was knocking on the door. “Mr. Jefferson? Stan Hill is here. He says it’s urgent.”

Irene heard her and shoved him. “Go.”

Isaac kept staring at her. “You don’t want me to leave at all, do you?”

was speechless–she did think so but would never say it. Smiling, she reached out from the bathtub, wrapping her hands

on the door again,

“Mr. Jefferson…?”

the bathroom then, taking a towel as he did to wipe

the door, he asked, “What

him with a grim look. “Something

envelope, and he opened in to find a

changed the

“Come with me.”

to the study with Stan in

ten minutes before leaving the mansion, and were gone by the time Irene.

the cheek and

should

for someone as dutiful as Mrs. Watson, who took good care of Tommy so that she had nothing to worry about while

was just about to leave when she remembered something. “Has Isaac

Mrs. Watson replied. “It

Irene nodded.

the way to Melville Hospital, she was checking her phone and saw more articles about Quincy. She would be

Stan come to talk about

should have been a foregone conclusion, with no surprises