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.

her arms. Both him and his baby brother

me two years, Isaac. Dennis Turner picked me, and he's not going to find someone else so soon if I

to complete development of the artificial heart, and I'll resign once I'm done to take

toward

he kept one hand on the steering wheel while caressing her face

at home since

Slate mentioning more than once that she was a person with

she was forced to give up

who'd be paying me a salary.

said, giving him a

Isaac was speechless.

was that supposed to mean, and why did it sting

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

found that having someone to depend on was so nice

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

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

for doing that while he

stack of documents to read following the on-site survey,

night,

was curling into a ball by the window