The Runaway Groom

Chapter 381

The woman who stood at the door had her long hair tied up elegantly, and was

dressed in a white tailored dress. Though she only had a pair of pearl earrings on, she appeared graceful despite the simplicity.

“You are…?” she asked as she watched Irene.

Irene was left spacing out for a moment–the woman looked exactly like she did in the photo.

Still, she quickly came to her senses and cried, “Please, you have to help me…”

Behind her, Ricky kept up his act. “Get back here or I’ll kill you! Did you think you could run from me?!”

Irene then looked pleadingly at Layla, saying, “He’ll kill me if I go with him–please, you have to help me!”

Fortunately, Layla was kind enough to stop the man behind Irene. “Please let her go, or I’ll have to call the cops.”

“She’s my woman! I can do whatever I want! Mind your own business?!” Ricky snarled, really looking the part of a rogue just then, although he lacked the appearance to really look menacing.

He took after his mother, and was good looking but has a rather kidlike face, and was not really brutish.

Layla frowned. “There are cameras here. You are breaking the law, and I can call the hotel staff here right away.”

“Call them all you

kept pretending to be scared

“It’s fine,” Layla replied.

Irene

and said,

“Thank you,” Irene said.

a cup of tea, she said, “Here, have a drink to calm down.

that your boyfriend?”

on him and he’s trying to kill me,” Irene said

shouldn’t stay with men with violent tendencies,” Layla

and suddenly asked, “Are

even

“Yes, my daughter is twenty this year, in

stunned–Layla has

having a sister, or

her name?”

“Erin Gooding,” Lalya replied.

but she had never heard of that name. Moreover, the daughter’s last

heads or tails of their relationship, Irene knew that she

this person I know, Isaac Jefferson…” She mentioned Isaac