The Runaway Groom

Chapter 451

James was puzzled. "The security footage of the auction? Why?"

Isaac turned to look at him.

Though he said nothing, the pressure he projected was almost palpable.

James quickly lowered his head, afraid to ask more questions right then." I'll go right now."

While Isaac did manage to pull himself together after Irene's death, he was constantly overworking and suffered from chronic insomnia.

Every night, he needed medication just to sleep.

And if one were to say that he was cold as a person before, he was now even worse.

In fact, he only saved his harshness for his rivals, and was more or less ' kind'to his own people.

Now, even Stan had resigned as an assistant in favor of a desk job.

It was not as if he was scared, but it was very difficult to work alongside Isaac these days.

The air around him seemed to turn cold from his very presence, and the people with him constantly felt a suffocating pressure.

had undoubtedly

James did not even have any idea what Isaac was up to, but quickly did as he

he was already too late- Mick had just left through the back door, having remembered to

asking for the night's security footage that the cameras

was

had

to face Isaac

there was no running away either, so he simply braced himself and returned to the

white bathrobe and was lounging on the couch, his collar wide open. The mere sight of his long neck and his chiseled collarbone was picturesque and reminiscent of the

the table next to him,

him, James

not even look at him as

and said, "I don't have

at James with an indiscernible emotion,

"Sir..."

the host would allow cameras to malfunction at an auction attended by major players from across

upset with James-his insight seemed to have dulled, and his

pressure that he could not stay as composed as he used to-lsaac had to tell him exactly what was wrong for him to realize something was

fortune. The hosts would naturally be far more prudent, and would not allow for any security oversights at al I—if the cameras were malfunctioning

auctioned items was lost, it

said, "I'll go talk to them