Chapter 74

The bar owner hesitated for a moment but didn’t object. After all, it was someone from the Richardson family. It didn’t matter who took her home.

Phillip grasped Leanne’s arm to help her stand, but it was awkward. After a moment of thought, he scooped her up in a fireman’s lift.

As they were leaving, Leanne slowly opened her eyes a bit.

Her

eyes were swollen and rimmed with red. She was heavily intoxicated, barely making out the man’s profile through her haze and mistaking him for Curtis.

With a face flushed from too much alcohol, she looked up at him and wept.

“I regret it so much… I should never have married you…”

Phillip was taken aback, “Anne, you’ve got it wrong again. I’m Phillip.”

Leanne didn’t hear him, her sorrow rekindled by the sight of “Curtis.”

“Just like the rest, you pick on me for being an orphan, with no one to stand up for me…

gave up on correcting her and listened as she vented her

vision blurred and kept asking the man holding her

you love me?”

out of the bar, he looked up to see a car parked at the curb when Curtis stood beside it in a black trench coat, silently watching them.

in his arms. Curtis, hands buried in his pockets, glanced blankly at Leanne cradled

at Phillip, crying desperately, asking over and over why he didn’t love

watched impassively, showing no intention of taking her from

waiting for?” Phillip demanded.

gave a careless chuckle, “You know, you should see it through to the end and take her all the way

how you play the husband? What have you done to Anne to

Curtis retorted, “As if

casual demeanor was at odds with the family’s reputation which

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about.

him unusually sternly, “Curtis, our family doesn’t condone this kind of irresponsibility. I don’t care what you do in your private life, but as long as Anne is your wife, you’re expected to

cried even harder, cursing in a slurred voice, “Curtis, you

she doesn’t

out of his

on her feet, Leanne slipped

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