Chapter 677

As Irene turned around, she smiled at Isaac. "It's important to you. I understand."

"I'm not hiding it from you," he explained. "It's just something pointless…"

"Really?" Irene asked pointedly—she remembered his horrific outburst because she touched it.

While she did not care about that before, she would be lying if she said the same still applied now.

"You've been young before too, Isaac. Maybe you had a crush before—"

"Enough." He cut her short, frowning slightly just then.

He seemed… angry.

Why? Because she mentioned his unspeakable past? And he still minded it now?

"Do you have another woman in your heart, Isaac Jefferson?" she asked solemnly.

"No," he said, denying it.

Irene was clearly skeptical, however—why else would he be overreacting?

Who could it be? What could they have given him that he would care so much about that?

"Well, you know the real answer to that. I wish that we are being honest with each other, and have faith in each other—but if the day comes that