The Runaway Groom

Chapter 440

Ricky tried to free himself from Stan, but the other man kept a vice-like grip on his hand to stop him from running.

Even so, Ricky protested. “No. I’d never agree to that–there’s no way I can do it anyway. Just let me go!” Stan told him as politely as he could, “You’re the best man for the job.”

“What do you mean I’m the best man for the job? Do you think Sheryl wouldn’t be devastated if I were the one who told her?! I won’t be the villain here! I refuse!”

To Ricky, Stan might as well have been telling him the worst joke ever.

Even if his mother had been at odds with Sheryl and Irene, there was no doubt that his mother had done more than her fair share of mistakes.

And after he spent a lot of time with Sheryl and Irene, he could feel that they were generally kind, and long since considered them family. Sheryl had since become a mother figure as well… but if he told her that Irene was dead, she would die weeping!

“Can’t we hide it?” Ricky certainly believed that silence was the better idea here.

“Do you really think we can hide a person’s death?” Stan asked, holding his gaze. “Well, maybe we can lie to her for a couple days or months, but do you think we can keep going for a year? I’m asking you because that’s the best for everyone.”

Ricky did not really see his point. “Why?”

to happen, but it did- but we are obliged to live on, because we’re alive. That’s why I want

in days? She even had a baby with

roll his eyes at Ricky–did this

an idiot. “And do you think Sheryl could bear the pain? It will stay with her for the rest of

Tommy. It’s impossible to stop them from meeting…”

and then letting everything blow up at once is

a double take and chuckled. “I didn’t think you’d be this

hurt together if we

later, Stan had completed renovations of the castle into a snowy fortress–one would feel as if they set foot in the North Pole the instant they entered.

Stan certainly knew the man, and he had done

had happened over the last three

about Irene’s death. She was now admitted to a hospital, and she had become much skinnier after going two days without food

Cloud City looking for Ricky the day he hung up on her, worried that he would go out of line. That was how she

same time, Isaac had not spoken

as a funeral, but it was somehow also

people gathering to mourn her, watching her ice casket from afar since Isaac did not