Chapter 740

"It's me," Isaac whispered softly into Irene’s ear.

She turned and smacked him on the chest in annoyance. "You scared me."

Isaac held her hands down. "I'll be more careful next time."

Irene took a moment to calm down then-her heart had almost leapt out of her throat just now, as she thought someone had broken in.

Still, she became worried anyway. "I wonder how Lulu's doing. Where would she go? She's all by herself..."

Isaac frowned slightly and asked, "Aren't you tired?"

Irene flexed her neck in response-it had certainly been a long day, and it was very late.

"Yeah," she replied with a yawn.

"So why bother?"

Irene realized then that he was not concerned, but complaining that she was being a busybody instead.

'They're family," she grumbled. "I can't do nothing-"

Isaac wrapped his

"I

to skip for a day.

her eyes as

If

enough, and Isaac tucked her under the blanket,

make herself comfortable and

that she left, and he searched every place where she

she left

remembering the time he kept her with him while she

had

felt was grief and

was the reason for

night was quiet, and the moon's glow

shone dimly, throwing a long shadow as

time, and he only got home as the first rays of

absence, Mrs. Slate was going to start a search, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him

asked, before noting the sadness on his

Zachary headed upstairs right

woman," Mrs. Slate said then. "If she can be so determined to leave you,

tracks and wheeled on her with an icy

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