The Runaway Groom

Chapter 727

Henry was leaning on his seat, his body covered under a blanket.

He was skinny and withered. The wrinkles on his neck were distinct and his eyes were sunken and dull, while his face was covered in irregular patches of liver spots.

A man like him should be surrounded by his children and grandchildren, reveling in familial joy, but Henry appeared desolate and miserable.

Even so, Irene still felt no sympathy because it was all Henry's own fault, and he could not blame anyone else.

"I know you want me to talk to Isaac. After all, you're old and need family now more than ever, don't you?"

"Would you help me?" Henry would certainly admit that he was old and needed company.

"Don't you have Ian Jefferson already?" Irene pointed out icily.

for that?" Henry rasped

Isaac as my father requested, because you had your agenda. You wanted me to soften him, so that he gives up on hate, thinking that you're doing it for

asked impatiently in

now, he believed that his choice

If you ever were on his side, you would've at least thrown one of them in jail to atone for Isaac's parents' death, instead of trying to appeal

right to

would not be this cold if you had punished even one member of Greg's

a moment to calm herself. "What you did later was even worse. How is he supposed to forgive

gave him the entire

buy him a parent's love? He lost both parents when he's

happiness do you think he even remembers?

spoke. "He had more than one attempt on his life, and you know who did it. Have you

Henry frowned. "How?"

head? You would never have done that if you actually cared. You insist everything was for his sake, but