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…

person was pointless, so Phillip gave up on correcting her and listened as she vented her grief,

cried so hard her vision blurred and kept asking the man holding her if he ever loved

don’t you love

carried her 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

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

at Phillip, crying desperately, asking over and over why he

just watched impassively, showing no intention

waiting for?” Phillip demanded.

you should see it through to

What have you done

Curtis retorted, “As if it’s my

at odds with the family’s reputation

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about.

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 fulfill

Leanne, utterly intoxicated, cried even harder, cursing in a

lightly, “Even drunk, she doesn’t forget to

he took his hands out of his pockets and took Leanne from

her on her feet, Leanne

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