The Runaway Groom

Chapter 6

Isaac looked up. He raised a brow, amplifying his menacing presence. “What?”

Zachary gritted his teeth. “Whatever. I will bear with it this time since it concerns your happiness.”

Isaac gave him a dark, placid look. “Drive.”

After Stan drove off, Zachary decided that he must at least do something for Irene, but saw that she had just stepped out of the entrance when he turned to head back to the lounge.

“Irene...” Zachary walked up to her.

“I need to go.”

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She was still smiling at him, and it hurt Zachary to see her like this. “I‘ll do my best to find a donor for your mother.”

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The thought of her mother left Irene‘s gut clenching. She worked hard to hide her feelings, but the quiver in her voice was telling. “Really?”

A heart donor does not grow on trees, and there were plenty of cases where patients died even before they found a match.

Her eyes welling with tears, she did not know how to

convey her gratitude other than saying, “Thank you, Zachary.”

Zachary actually felt a little embarrassed–she would be much closer to her dream if Isaac was not the one pulling strings. “I‘ll drive you

not try

to the mansion after parting ways with Zachary, and the thought that Isaac

was keeping her head down as

That voice...

up and found a

cold as he stared loftily upon her with a hint of

she had never seen his face in magazines or on TV, she

fair, she never expected him

“Why... are you here?”

idea what was doing here. He hated this arranged marriage, did he not? He should have zero intentions of meeting

do I need your permission to be

lowered her head. It was true – she was ‘invading‘ his territory “Sign this,” Isaac growled , unceremoniously throwing the divorce papers he

was not surprised. It was only natural that he demanded a divorce, but she could not sign it now and had to wait until after her mother‘s surgery. “Mr. Jef–” she stammered, unsure how to

she could finish, as if he had expected her to protest. After all, there was no way she would agree to this

means.

regret this later,” Isaac said as he

..

he had obviously misunderstood her, Irene wanted to explain. However, she accidentally tripped on the steps when she tried to chase him down, and dropped the

when she realized something was missing, and looked up to see that it had rolled to Isaac‘s feet. Reaching out by reflex and

to why she was so nervous, so he lifted

had two cavities, but one pill

could not tell what