Chapter 137 Isabella Is Really Blind

Natalle maintained her professional image as a career woman. She started caring less about who she dined with, influenced in part by Stephen,

As a result, no one dared to write about her recklessly.

In the car, Irwin was driving, and Natalie sat in the passenger seat.

Irwin casually asked, “Did your uncle go back?”

“Yeah, he was supposed to leave earlier, but he stayed here for a few more days because of me.”

Also, because of the Johnson family!

Rebecca and Benjamin had been aggressively trying to drive her out of Verde City before this, and the

situation had been hysterical!

With how they acted, Natalie could anticipate the relentless pursuit she would face if she truly left Verde

City.

“Well, you do make people worry, Irwin remarked.

Natalie felt a bit embarrassed. “Not really.

“You look the part.”

Natalie was speechless.

Okay!

She acknowledged that her petite stature did give off an impression of someone who might need extra

Care.

She was too short, making it seem like anyone could bully her. Back in the Johnson family, people used to think they could pick on her as if she were still a child!

Fair enough,” she admitted

her conceding, Irwin couldn’t help but find it amusing. How could such a small person dare to with the Johnson family, who resembled a group of fierce tigers?

afraid of being toin apart?

They sat facing ach othe

“Wasn’t Caleb supposed to join us?” Natalie asked.

Irwin checked the time on his watch. “When I went to pick you up, Caleb said he had a lunch appointment

and couldn’t make it.”

“Oh, I see.”

truly

to annoy Cedric, and partly because she

real connection.

felt natural then. But things

Irwin asked, observing

Natalie nodded. “Yes.”

take on it?”

Natalie was silent.

Was he expressing his feelings? Or was he forcing

likely at

awkward, but she was clever. Instead

“What about you? What do you

Hah, take that!

raised an eyebrow at her counter. Then, he took a sip of his

clever little fox!”

you expect me to respond to a question like

moment, couldn’t

just anyone who would

sitting across from her had a deep look in his eyes that was

vanished, replaced by seriousness.

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a certain level of resilience to

endure emotional coldness.

a long pause, just when Natalie thought Irwin

seemed somewhat

funny?” Natalie didn’t

what she said

“You’re very clever!”

Natalie was speechless.

was funny because she was

logic in this, and Natalie found it a bit

into a piece of beef, Irwin said, “I know that you’ve

You’re terrified of relationships

Natalie stayed silent.

she had to acknowledge that their ten years together couldn’t

right, I

more than just fear. She

in terms of relationships, Natalie was absolutely afraid

of those experiences was enough to make one

glimpsed fear and

you ever experienced

lost her composure. She raised the red wine glass before her

A previous life, huh?

thing would have seemed surreal in the real

impossible.

she had indeed

dream; in it, every

with the arrival of Stephen, Irwin, and Caleb.

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