The Runaway Groom

Chapter 14

Truth be told, Stan was not sure.

He had been puzzled and shocked himself to see Irene and Zachary holding a cheerful conversation over lunch he would never have known if he had not coincidentally passed by that restaurant either. “Should we call Dr. Slate and ask?” he suggested.

“Yeah,” Isaac flatly replied, and Stan quickly left to make the call.

Zachary arrived after around twenty minutes, and the instant he stepped into Isaac‘s office, he said, “Perfect timing. I was just going to-”

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“You know Irene Spencer?” Isaac asked.

Interjected before he could finish, Zachary was taken aback, but he soon nodded. “I do–she‘s my junior, and she‘s the one who treated your injury that time.”

Isaac leaned back on his brown leather couch , his long and bushy eyelashes twitching above his jet – black gaze.

That was her?

It was actually surprising.

“Right, so...” Zachary continued as he entered and took a seat. “Can‘t you be nicer to her, Isaac?”

Isaac raised a brow and loafed even more casually just then, but those who knew him understood that the more casual he was, the more pensive he actually was.

Zachary was actually close to Irene?

Somehow, he felt upset–and he actually had no idea why he felt that way.

“Are you siding with her?” he asked quietly. “What is she to you?”

toward her and her mother, and she had to work part time jobs during university to pay her tuition fees. A tragic case on all counts,” Zachary

to help her when I could, so we‘re good friends. Come on, Isaac – she needs her job to pay her mother‘s

suffer without her

remained impassive, but his

He appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully, “I don‘t mind forgiving her if she comes to

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tell right then that Isaac was still upset with Irene, and knew that Irene never liked to bother others, so he explained, “She

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

did she

just meant she was not desperate

Isaac refused to listen.

Zachary knew that it was futile to go on now. “Just don‘t push her too far–she did

cool glare then. “Do you

they that close that he

be the man she

be honest,” Zachary quickly explained. “She‘s quite likable, and although there were many boys who liked her and tried to woo her back at university, she rejected all of them. That‘s a proper maiden of integrity for you, and I think I‘d fall for her if I

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him a look of contempt, and

on her wedding night, and make him a cuckold? While Isaac glowered at those thoughts, Zachary did not notice what was happening with him. He

of the building, he called Irene outside the

hospital to

to persuade Isaac, but Irene knew about Isaac‘s bad temper anyway, and said, “It‘s fine. You don‘t have

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as she headed

a nurse saw her and told her,”

she exclaimed in

you,” the nurse replied, “You