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.”

a little embarrassed–she would 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

did not try to

ways with Zachary, and the thought that Isaac would

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

That voice...

a

him seemed to turn cold as he

magazines or on TV, she would never have recognized her

never expected him to

“Why... are you here?”

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

do I need your permission to be

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

he demanded a divorce, but she could not sign it now and had to wait until after her

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

means.

regret this

..

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

to a crouch to pick them 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

she was so nervous, so he lifted his foot and picked up the

cavities, but one pill had been taken, leaving

a brand he did not recognize. While he could not tell