The Runaway Groom

Chapter 409

As Isaac made his way towards Irene, her expression stiffened further, and her fingers dug further into her

skirt

They were no strangers, but she was so nervous she could not speak.

She missed him so much too, but she wanted to run away as he approached.

“You’re going to leave your skirt wrinkled and unseemly if you keep creasing it,” Isaac said as he reached her, and reached out to pry her fingers off her skirt.

Feeling the coolness of her fingertips, he asked softly, “Are you cold?”

Flustered, Irene nodded, and then shook her head.

Isaac smiled. “It’s not the first time you’re meeting me. Why are you so nervous? Anyone who didn’t know better would think I’m bullying you.”

Irene lowered her gaze. “No… I’m just surprised you suddenly came back.”

Isaac lifted her chin and smiled faintly, “You pretty yourself so much. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

He was being so tender, and yet she felt that there was something between them.

lifted her

to him, she did her best to compose herself and sound normal. “Are you finished with

replied–there were still things

left disappointed. Was he

been days since he

that mean you’re going to leave again?” She tried to

a moment. “I won’t leave if you don’t

him to go,

she was busy with work

keeping him with

both needed time–he needed it, to be

reluctant bitterness restrained at a little corner of her heart, she told him, “I understand that

held her gaze for seconds. “Not going

making money for the family,” she joked. “I won’t have anything to waste

chuckled. “Becoming a gold digger, are

sparkling and clear as her

her. Though she had a simple attractiveness

it.

the dangling lock of hair behind her

smiled in earnest then–any woman would be flattered by their

wedding–was grand and lively. The Slates and the Lindts carried influence in Cloud City, and a strategic marriage between their children