Chapter 22: Just a Fun Thing to Do?

When Troy glanced up, he noticed Imogen standing at the door.

She was silhouetted against the light, making it hard to see her face clearly, but he sensed her gaze fixed on him.

“Cedric and I bumped into each other in the hallway, so I thought I’d say hi to everyone,” Imogen said, smiling as she looked around the room.

Troy inquired, “Are you here with your friends for dinner?”

“Yes.”

Riley smiled at Imogen and asked, “What have you been up to lately?”

“Working on a project for McKesson.”

Riley was taken aback when he realized the significance of what she just said

But to others, it seemed like an innocuous remark as someone pointed at Sarah and asked, “Isn’t she the spokesperson for McKesson?”

Imogen walked over to the table and playfully poured herself a cup of tea into an empty wine glass. “Today, I’ll offer you tea instead of wine since we ran into each other,” she said, smiling. “I’ll treat you to dinner some other time. As your older brother, I raise my glass to you.”

She emphasized “older brother” clearly.

Since their marriage, Imogen rarely called him “older brother” anymore; instead, she used “Troy,” a sign of their closeness.

Imogen took a sip of tea from the glass.

“Thank you,” she said.

Imogen placed the wine glass down and added, “I have some other matters to attend to, so excuse

me.”

Cedric interjected, “Imogen, you can’t leave without toasting your sister–in–law.”

Riley inwardly cursed Cedric for making such a foolish suggestion, but before he could intervene, some guys at the table playfully flirted with Imogen. “Come on. Imogen, your older brother acknowledges her as your sister–in–law; give her a toast!” one of them said. “Are you being rude to her?”

“Do you still work together? Have a drink!” another said.

Imogen closed her eyes and pouted

How could she have expected Sarah to drink a toast?

“Or perhaps you’d rather leave,” Riley suggested.

in, “What’s the matter is Imogen unhappy with her brother’s wife? This is the

words were laden

a girl raised by the Marshalls, how dare she

is her sister–in–law. Is Mrs. Marshall

circle?

place in Grandpa Marshall’s heart. Does her behavior reflect his actions?

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were on Imogen.

by it.

girlfriend; say something,” Cedric

attention shifted to Troy.

gazed at Troy, her hand

eyes met, and

the bottom, and placed it in front of Imogen. “Imogen, toast your sister–in–law,” he said.

like a stab

he asked her, his wife, to raise a toast to Sarah.

he see her as his wife, or is she just a casual affair

though she had fallen into an icy

“Aren’t you going to? Or do you

her throat as the corners of her mouth drooped Troy, you know just how to

the

sister–in–law,” someone else said, adding to her

so difficult?

kind. Should it be that hard to raise a

tensing up. She stepped forward, picked up the wine glass from the table, lifted it toward Sarah, and downed it in one

wine glass down, she turned away without

the toast to her sister–in–law,” Cedric said,

the Marshall family.

has a place in the company now. Sarah is going to be the face of the Marshalls, yet she doesn’t take it seriously.

get hurt?”

sneeze,” Riley cleared his throat, noticing Troy’s displeased expression. “Let’s

face, the others assumed he didn’t like Imogen, so they refrained from saying

trying to please Troy and Sarah, suggested, “Troy, since Imogen is still single,

an interesting

was praised, and

up, and without warning, he kicked the

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off guard, falling to their knees

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