Chapter 573

Despite lrene’s best efforts in hiding her feelings, Isaac immediately heard the tears in her voice.

"Are you crying?” he asked quietly.

Irene did her best to keep her voice in check while denying it. "No, I'm fine.”

There was silence on the other end. "Alright, you totally weren't crying.”

Irene hung her head right then, staring at her toes as she said, "I missed you.’

Learning what had happened to Lulu had left her feeling as if she was punched in the gut.

She did her best to keep herself in check, but with Isaac, she suddenly wanted a shoulder to lean on, and to feel vulnerable.

There was a long silence from the other end. "You should go to bed."

Irene asked, "Weren't you supposed to come home once you're done over there?"

"Something came up."

Irene felt despondent.

lowering her head as teardrops trickled over her eyelashes. "You called to tell me

"Yeah,” he said quietly.

Just do what you have to, but

"Yeah."

"I'm hanging up

"Yeah."

and stared blankly

Irene was sound asleep, the door opened

while his collar was loose, baring his muscular chest. There was stubble on his chin and fatigue showed in his eyes-a far cry from his

he

their bedroom, illuminating by silver moonlight. He stood by the door, watching Irene curling

waking her, then washed off his travel weariness before

asleep until it was very late, so she

down

worried when he heard Irene's tearful voice over the phone and returned ahead of

warmth

the forehead, patting her gently on the

the next morning, she rubbed her eyes when she saw someone in

morning voice sounded

she spoke, she reached out to touch his face as if to test if it was a

and felt real to

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