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.”

Natalie truly

meals alone with Irwin before was partly to annoy

real connection.

natural then. But things

you, right?” Irwin asked, observing Natalie’s

Natalie nodded. “Yes.”

what’s your take on it?”

Natalie was silent.

was this man’s intention now? Was he expressing his feelings? Or was he

seemed likely at

but she was clever. Instead of directly answering Irwin’s

“What about you?

Hah, take that!

her counter. Then, he took a sip of his red wine

clever little fox!”

expect me to respond to

crucial moment, couldn’t he

who would give

in his eyes that was hard to read. The casualness he

vanished, replaced by seriousness.

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of resilience to have a husband like this, something like being able

endure emotional coldness.

pause, just when Natalie thought Irwin wouldn’t respond,

laughter seemed somewhat

so funny?”

what she

“You’re very clever!”

Natalie was speechless.

she was funny because

was absolutely no logic in this, and Natalie found it a bit challenging to

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

family. You’re terrified

Natalie stayed silent.

reluctant to admit the existence of any emotions between her and Cedric, she had to acknowledge that their ten

right, I am

relationships. It was more than just fear. She downright dared not

terms of relationships, Natalie was absolutely afraid to approach them at

those experiences was enough to make one feel like they were suffocating in

glimpsed fear and sorrow in

you ever

the red wine glass before her and took

A previous life, huh?

thought of such a thing would have seemed surreal in the real world, something

impossible.

she had

a dream; in it,

this life, her life trajectory changed with the arrival of Stephen,

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