Chapter 573

Despite Irene’s best efforts in hiding her feelings, Isaac immediately heard the tears in her voice.

"Are you crying?" he asked quietly.

Irene did her best to keep her voice in check while denying it. "No, I'm fine."

There was silence on the other end. "Alright, you totally weren't crying."

Irene hung her head right then, staring at her toes as she said, "I missed you.'

Learning what had happened to Lulu had left her feeling as if she was punched in the gut.

She did her best to keep herself in check, but with Isaac, she suddenly wanted a shoulder to lean on, and to feel vulnerable.

There was a long silence from the other end. "You should go to bed."

Irene asked, "Weren’t you supposed to come home once you’re done over there?"

"Something came up."

Irene felt despondent.

she murmured, lowering her head as teardrops trickled over her eyelashes. "You called to tell me that you're

"Yeah,” he said quietly.

do what you have to, but tell me

"Yeah."

fingers clenched over her phone. "I'm

"Yeah."

away her phone and stared blankly at nothing for a long

night, while Irene was sound asleep, the door opened

loose, baring his muscular chest. There was stubble on his chin and

he was

as he tiptoed into the house, gently opening the door to their bedroom, illuminating by silver moonlight. He stood by the door, watching Irene curling into herself on

his travel

it was very late, so she was now sound asleep, unable to sense that someone

the bed, Isaac quietly lay down beside her and wrapped

an emergency, he became worried when he heard Irene's tearful voice over the phone and returned

the warmth and snuggled against

her a peck on the forehead, patting her gently on the back, afraid of

a daze the next morning, she rubbed her eyes when she saw someone in

voice sounded quite

his face as if to test if it was

and felt real to

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