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?”

and everyone. No one wanted this to happen, but it did- but we are obliged to live on, because we’re alive. That’s why I want you to tell Sheryl right now, or Isaac would sink into another fit of depression if she starts crying around him in a few days, just as he

even had a baby with

Stan wanted to roll his eyes at Ricky–did

her for the rest of her life, and if you don’t want her sad around Isaac, you should ask her to not show

impossible to stop

but holding it in and then letting everything blow up at once is nothing good either,” Ricky countered.

“I didn’t think you’d be this reasonable, kid.”

hurt together if we

Stan had completed renovations of the castle into a snowy fortress–one would

Isaac for a while now, Stan certainly knew the man, and he had done so well

had happened over

after being told about Irene’s death. She was now admitted to a hospital, and she had become

had rushed over to Cloud City looking for Ricky the day he hung up on her, worried that he would

had not spoken

as a funeral, but it was

to mourn her, watching her ice casket from