The Runaway Groom

Zachary said, "That's right. You'd envy me for having a daughter while you don't."

Isaac chuckled. "For now. Who knows what happens when she gets older? On the other hand, my sons would still be mine."

Zachary was speechless.

What was that supposed to mean? That his daughter would not be his once she became an adult?

Hilarious! His Jean would always be his! How would she not be his daughter once she got older?

And yet, something suddenly occurred to him and he understood what Isaac meant and was left frowning!

"Isaac!" he cried, chasing after him. "Y-You'd better watch your sons! Tell them to stay away from my daughter!"

Irene gave Baby a pointed look and chuckled. “That's why you shouldn't get too smug or you'd lose your daughter.”

Zachary was speechless.

The thought that the daughter, with whom he would raise carefully, would grow up to be someone else's girlfriend or wife left him utterly frustrated.

Isaac's words were especially infuriating.

was that supposed to

of Isaac's sons! And no one was taking Jean

on." Zachary snorted

with Zachary—how long had it only

raise her until she's as old as seventy,” Isaac

was left

No way!

darling Jean would marry someone young and successful in the future and certainly not

think of it, letting her marry one of Isaac's sons made sense. Isaac was rich, and neither

or less the same. Zachary could keep an eye on them while they grew up as well and pick the more successful one,

to really marry one of Isaac's sons, the boy

a daughter and half a son... which meant he would have stolen half a son

certainly no

said, "So, I

be groomed from

him askance. "That's my son. What are

through him. "Anyone can read you