A Divorce After My Rebirth by Gentle Rain in June

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 felt

before was partly to annoy Cedric, and partly because she and Irwin

real connection.

natural then. But things

told you, right?” Irwin asked,

Natalie nodded. “Yes.”

what’s your take

Natalie was silent.

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

likely

a bit awkward, but she was clever. Instead of directly

you?

Hah, take that!

an eyebrow at her counter. Then, he took a sip of his red wine and

clever little fox!”

to respond

moment, couldn’t he

who

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

vanished, replaced by seriousness.

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level of resilience to

endure emotional coldness.

a long pause, just when Natalie thought Irwin wouldn’t respond, he

seemed somewhat

funny?” Natalie

she said amusing?

“You’re very clever!”

Natalie was speechless.

she was funny because she

and Natalie found it a bit challenging to accept his

elegant bite into a piece of beef, Irwin said, “I

You’re terrified of relationships

Natalie stayed silent.

reluctant to admit the existence of any emotions between her and Cedric, she had to acknowledge that their ten years together couldn’t be erased so easily. Pulling out completely was not as simple as it

right, I

relationships. It was more than just fear. She downright

in terms of relationships, Natalie was absolutely afraid to

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

flashed as he glimpsed fear and sorrow in

could say anything, Natalie asked, “Have you ever experienced the taste of being burned in

her composure. She raised the red wine glass before her and took a

A previous life, huh?

thought of such a thing would have seemed surreal in the

impossible.

had indeed experienced

dream; in

life trajectory changed with the arrival of Stephen, Irwin, and Caleb. Natalie didn’t