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.”

dream if Isaac was not the one pulling strings. “I‘ll

not try to

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

good happen?” Irene was keeping her head down as she changed into loafers near the front door. “Nothing. I just like staying here

That voice...

found a man

The air around him seemed to turn cold as he stared loftily

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

she never expected him

“Why... are you here?”

was doing here. He hated this arranged marriage, did he not? He

I need your permission to be

‘invading‘ his territory “Sign this,” Isaac growled

now and had to wait until after her mother‘s surgery. “Mr.

he had expected her to protest. After all, there was

means.

regret this later,” Isaac said as he

..

that 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

up. That was when she realized something was 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

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

two cavities, but one pill had been taken,

around and noted a brand he did not recognize. While he could not tell what pills were in there, the line of text at the