The Runaway Groom

Chapter 773

Irene frowned as she tapped on her phone again, and it was another message.

[Refuse, and I will come to you at your workplace.]

It almost sounded threatening.

“What now?" Isaac asked.

Irene pursed her lips, searching her mind endlessly to find who would possibly do this.

No one came to mind apart from Seth Hedge, but he was not about to bother her with a broken leg.

“They would look for me at work if I don't go," she told Isaac, unsettled.

She was wary, and certainly did not like having this weirdness like this happening to her.

"I'll drive you to work tomorrow," Isaac said.

Irene looked at him, feeling apologetic inside that she could not care for their family as a wife, or ease his list of worries.

Instead, his own work was affected because of her.

asleep in her arms. Both

picked me, and he's not going to

right to complete development of the artificial heart, and I'll resign

turned toward

her, he kept one hand on the steering wheel while caressing her face with his other. "What is

"Just want to freeload at home since you

so, Isaac heard Zachary Slate mentioning more than once

she really be happy if she was forced to give up on her ideals for

thought you're the one who'd be paying me

you," Irene said, giving

Isaac was speechless.

supposed to mean, and why

he said, taking her hand in his. "You have me. You have nothing

found that having someone to depend on was so nice just

married. You don't have to be so polite." Zachary was worn out from the long-distance travel to and from New Kent, but he could not fall asleep even as he tossed and turned in

forgive himself for his mistake, and he felt utterly sickened no

doing that while he was drunk,

got out of bed and headed to his study. He had a stack of documents to read following the on-site survey, which he was going to do tomorrow at his office. Instead, he went to work right away since he could not

was late at night, and everything

into a ball by the