Chapter 84

Before Irene could respond, Harvey said, "If you don't want to stay with Isaac Jefferson, and you've already broken up with your boyfriend… Why don't you just marry me?" Harvey had asked Irene who the child's father was before, and Irene lied that it was a boyfriend whom she had broken up with—that was why the child was now fatherless. "No—" "Don't be in such a hurry to say no," Harvey said, cutting her short. "We've been here for months, and I've shown that I can be nice, right? Aren't we friends, at least? There's no way you can stay here for the rest of your life, and if you don't want Isaac to keep haunting you, you need some degree of status." Irene looked at him as she pondered—it was true, she could not stay here forever. But once she left, being found by Isaac was just an eventuality. "I can be your shield. Just tell Isaac that your child is mine," Harvey suggested slyly then. Right now, he wanted to hurt Isaac in every way possible—he was even willing to make Isaac be