The Runaway Groom

Chapter 667

Irene felt spirited right then. Could it be a phone call from Isaac?

’Hello?"

However, it turned out to be Sheryl. "Irene, did you leave in the middle of the night?"

’Yeah," Irene murmured quietly, doing her best to hide her disappointment.

"Why'd you have to leave? How could you still be so unruly? Don't you understand the state you’re in?" Sheryl rebuked her right then.

Irene smiled and tried to assure her mother, saying, "I know. It won't happen again."

'You always say that, but you never actually do it."

It was not as if Sheryl wanted to scold her, but Irene really did make her worry all the time.

Irene naturally had to change the subject. "Mom, did something happen? Was that why you called me?"

"Yeah. Will you be home soon?"

’Yeah."

'Well, you will find out when you get home."

replied,

for a moment,

Meanwhile, in Franconia...

grander than

office here was furnished in Franconian style, it still

upset at Irene and he needed

actually had work to do here, too-stacks of

"James Cross doesn't want to

man had transferred him here, but

gave him a cool look. "James is much more reliable than you are. You should

Bzzt-

left speechless, Isaac's phone started to

the screen, his gaze

could not ignore her

aloof despite answering and restrained his voice. "What

to him, but

"It's nothing... You didn't tell me that you were

head

"No," Isaac coolly replied.

Irene pursed her lips.

but she asked anyway, "Do you miss

would never admit it because of his pride. 'I

smiled. "Well, absence makes the heart fonder, right?