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.

her brother’s wife? This is the one Troy calls

words were laden

girl raised by the Marshalls, how dare she

Imogen know that Sarah is her sister–in–law.

circle?

in Grandpa Marshall’s heart.

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eyes were

anything by it. Don’t make

Sarah is your girlfriend; say something,”

attention shifted

her hand involuntarily curled

and their gazes intertwined.

bottom, and

word “sister–in–law” felt like a stab to

asked her, his wife, to raise a

is

felt her body stiffen, as though she had fallen into an icy pit. A deep chill engulfed her, and her teeth chattered.

eyes. “Aren’t you going to? Or do you not

and a sour taste rose in her throat as the corners of her mouth drooped Troy, you know just how

the knife into her heart.

to your sister–in–law,” someone else said,

so difficult?

be that hard to raise a glass to your

up. She stepped forward, picked up the wine glass

the wine glass down, she turned away without

to her sister–in–law,” Cedric said,

the Marshall family. How

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

get hurt?”

throat, noticing Troy’s displeased expression. “Let’s not discuss this right now,” he

Troy’s unhappy face, the others assumed he didn’t like Imogen, so they refrained from

still single, why don’t you find her a husband? Her

an interesting

was praised, and

without warning, he kicked the person in the knee.

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a Fun Thing

The

was caught off guard, falling to their knees in pain.

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