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.

with her brother’s wife? This is

words were laden

by the Marshalls, how dare she mistreat the future

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

circle?

special place in Grandpa Marshall’s heart. Does her

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eyes were

anything by it. Don’t make it difficult for

girlfriend;

shifted

at Troy, her hand

and

table, poured the bottom, and placed it in front of Imogen. “Imogen,

word “sister–in–law” felt like a

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

is she just

fallen into an icy pit. A

adjusted his tie, and squinted his eyes. “Aren’t you going to? Or do

in her throat as the corners of her mouth drooped Troy, you know

thrusting the knife into

a toast to your sister–in–law,” someone else said, adding to

that so difficult?

is being kind. Should it be that hard

up. She stepped forward, picked up the wine glass from the table, lifted it toward

she turned

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

really think she’s the true lady of the Marshall family. How

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?”

noticing Troy’s displeased expression. “Let’s not discuss

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

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

an interesting idea.”

praised, and they

without warning, he kicked the person in the

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was caught off guard, falling to their knees in

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