The Runaway Groom

Chapter 426

lan snorted and laughed icily. “You can’t even if you want to. Don’t forget that I have the upper hand here.

“No, we are on equal terms right now,” Irene growled in return. “If you hurt Tommy, my mom is going to make you suffer. You can’t lay a finger on them even if you have them, and while you have leverage against me, I’m only complying because I would rather they not get hurt at all.”

Her retort only drew more laughter from lan. “No, you’re mistaken. Isaac killed my mother, left my father a cripple, and took Light Group away from me. I have nothing, and therefore fear nothing-all I want right now is for Isaac to have a taste of losing everything too.”

Irene panicked right then-there was just no arguing against a man who had lost everything.

Since there was nothing holding him back, lan was truly capable of anything.

And that makes him utterly terrifying.

After she hung up, Irene turned toward James and asked, “Did you get anything?”

shook his head. “He probably expected us to track him and prepared accordingly.

position, and he knew enough to pick a time when Mr. Jefferson isn’t

now,” Irene told them. “Think of

about you?”

MPV with the registration plate 90026. I’ll turn on the GPS on my phone once I get in,

squarely. “That’s too dangerous, and I won’t be able to explain myself to Mr. Jefferson if anything

or reprisals at all. What if he hurts my mom and Tommy if I refuse him? Do you think I can bear

whereas Irene understood the risk-she would be in danger if she played along to lan’s whims, but it would

she said determinedly. “We don’t have a choice because he has two

certainly had no alternatives, so

while turning on the tracker just as the

had already hidden in the mansion, so that no one would know

strode over to the MPV,

James divided his team between tracking Irene and searching for where lan was holding