Chapter 498
’Isaac Jefferson, you have every right to not love me... But you have no right to question my virtue."
With that, Irene reached for the doorknob, opening it with a click.
However, Isaac caught her hand. "I'm sorry."
Stephen's words had struck him where it hurt, and he let his own anger get the battle of him.
Moreover, she really was pregnant, which was why he had such a poor choice of words.
’Irene, if I didn't love you, I'd never be with you even if we had ten children. All I wanted to do was protect you, that's why I said I was only staying with you because of Tommy-the more I showed concern for you in front of Ian, the more he would want to hurt you."
Irene looked up, forgetting her scars in shock.
He had said that because he did not want Ian to hurt her.
So, was it all just a misunderstanding?
Isaac's eyes landed on her scars then and his expression darkened further.
His throat felt stiff and he could not speak.
looking at. She quickly tried to hide it, but her hands seemed to be at
was natural that she did not
murmured, lowering
face so that
evasive, the
scars that stretched from her face to neck. The
wrinkled, uneven, and reddened-unseemly,
was pain
with tears.
like the way he stared, taking
his face pressing against the burned side of her face and whispering gently into her ear,
well how
he simply said, carefully caressing
protecting her, allowing Ian to capture her, and for saying what he did without thinking, sending
asked, "How did
her-he never realized that' Jane Tanner' was
Carr... And I'll definitely kill him," Isaac growled
down and thought about it, the look on Stephen's
Irene was actually
that you fell in love with someone else and did everything
looked up at him. "Is that why you
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