The Runaway Groom

The Runaway Groom Chapter 14

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?”

from the same teaching hospital, although she‘s two semesters my junior. Word is that her father has a mistress and is cold toward her and her mother, and she had to work part time jobs during university to pay her tuition fees. A tragic case on

why I tried to help her when I could, so we‘re good friends. Come on, Isaac – she

to suffer without her

impassive, but his heart was actually

tragic ... though that was not reason enough to forgive her. He appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully,

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was still upset with Irene, and knew that Irene never liked to bother others, so he explained, “She wouldn‘t have come to

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

did she refuse to come

she was not desperate enough!

Isaac refused to listen. “Like I said,

and Zachary knew that it was futile to go on

glare then. “Do you like

he would go so far for

he be the man

her back at university, she rejected all of them. That‘s a proper maiden of integrity for you, and I

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a look of contempt, and thought

wedding night, and make him a cuckold? While Isaac glowered at those thoughts, Zachary did not notice what was

the building, he called

her hospital to visit her mother when she

Isaac‘s bad temper anyway,

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up, she composed herself as she headed

nurse saw

she exclaimed in

just about to call you,” the nurse replied, “You should go check on

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