The Runaway Groom

Chapter 127

As Lionel stepped inside his ward, he told Samantha, “You can leave. I don’t need you here.”

Samantha quickly tried to appease him. “You can’t be alone, right? I’ll stay.”

However, Lionel had already seen through her and what she wanted.

“You just want my inheritance, don’t you?” he asked, exposing her right then.

“No!” Samantha quickly explained. “I’m fine without it, but you have to take care of Ricky. He has a criminal record, and there’s every chance he won’t get a good career. You have to think of him!”

Lionel was not bothered with her rant, and simply lay down in bed!

Was he that stupid that he would not look after his own son?

Meanwhile, Irene had left quietly, and Ricky followed her out of the building.

“Sis,” he called out to her.

Turning to look at him with an impassive expression, she asked, “What?”

“I heard that you’re the one who got a specialist to help Dad,” Ricky said earnestly, his .hostility toward her before nowhere to be seen. “Thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me. He’s my father too,” Irene replied, and left.

else to talk about

the girl beside him the instant Irene

name was Kathy Young, and she was a secretary

secretary and did not

had nothing going for her aside from a certification

for her looks, and she was a good choice to make Irene

“Mr. Jefferson…”

felt despondent when Isaac

Hill to come downstairs,” Isaac coolly told

he was being intimate one moment, and icily distant the next. What was

as she was told. When Stan arrived downstairs, he walked up to Isaac’s car. “Yes, Mr.

not upset. Does that mean he really doesn’t care about me?”

tended to fumble when it came to Irene perhaps he was having tunnel vision, or because he was just

also why he

despondent to see that Irene could

idea was a

she’s

away,” Isaac snapped, and

Isaac was already giving up on

enough

inside the

a mistake?” she

Upset?