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.

who was asleep in her arms. Both him and his

Dennis Turner picked me, and he's not going to find someone

the artificial heart, and I'll resign once I'm done to

toward her

pressure on her, he kept one hand on the steering wheel

to freeload at home since you

mentioning more than once that she was a

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

the one who'd be paying me a

Irene said, giving him a

Isaac was speechless.

supposed to mean, and why did it sting a

think about it," he said, taking her hand in his. "You

found that having someone to depend on was

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

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

for doing that while he was

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

was late at night, and everything

Lulu Adams was unable to sleep, so she was curling into a ball by the window to stare at the