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.

chimed in, “What’s the matter is Imogen unhappy with her brother’s wife? This is the one Troy calls ‘Madam

were laden with meaning.

by the Marshalls, how dare she mistreat the future Mrs.

Imogen know that Sarah is her

circle?

a special place in Grandpa Marshall’s heart.

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were on Imogen.

mean anything by it. Don’t make

girlfriend; say something,” Cedric

shifted

Troy, her

eyes met, and their

reached for a wine glass on the table, poured the bottom, and placed it

felt like a stab to her heart.

so many friends, he asked her, his wife, to raise a toast

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

though she had fallen into an icy

and squinted his eyes. “Aren’t you going to? Or

in her throat as the corners

one thrusting the knife into her

just a toast to your sister–in–law,” someone else said, adding to her discomfort.

so difficult?

that hard to raise a glass to

the wine glass from the table, lifted it toward Sarah,

glass down, she turned away without a

didn’t refuse the toast to her sister–in–law,” Cedric said, smiling and shaking

lady of the Marshall family. How dare

to be the face of the Marshalls, yet she doesn’t take it seriously. Troy, are you just going to watch Sarah.

get hurt?”

noticing Troy’s displeased expression. “Let’s

Troy’s unhappy face, the others assumed he didn’t like

one person, seemingly trying to please Troy and Sarah, suggested, “Troy, since Imogen is still single, why don’t you find her

an interesting

was praised, and

up, and without warning, he

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The

falling to

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