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.”

be much closer to her dream if Isaac was not the one pulling strings. “I‘ll drive you home.” “No, it‘s fine.” Irene quickly refused–she had to, because she was not going

did not try to

back to the mansion after parting ways with Zachary, and the thought that Isaac would never set

Watson could see that she was not as wary as the first day she moved in, and smiled. “You look quite happy. Did something good happen?” Irene was keeping her head down as she changed into loafers near the front door. “Nothing. I just like staying here with you, Mrs. Watson–just

That voice...

looked up and found a man

turn cold as he stared loftily upon her with a hint of

face in magazines or on TV, she would never have recognized her

she never

“Why... are you here?”

hated this arranged marriage, did he not? He

do I need your permission to

“Sign this,” Isaac growled , unceremoniously

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

had expected her to protest. After all, there was

means.

it your way. Just don‘t regret this later,” Isaac said

..

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

missing, and looked up to see that it had rolled to Isaac‘s feet. Reaching out by reflex and keen not to be noticed, a foot

was curious as to why she was so nervous, so he lifted his foot and picked up

but one pill had

did not recognize. While he could not tell what pills were in there, the