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?”

part time jobs during university to pay her tuition fees. A tragic case on all counts,” Zachary said,

“That’s why I tried to help her when I could, so we‘re good friends. Come on, Isaac – she needs her job to pay her mother‘s medical bills. Can‘t you just let

suffer without her

remained impassive, but his heart was actually

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

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tell right then that Isaac was still upset with Irene, and knew that Irene never liked

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

desperate, why did she refuse

meant she was

Irene‘s sake, but Isaac refused to listen.

and Zachary knew that it was futile to go on now. “Just don‘t

shot him a cool glare then. “Do you like

that he would go so

he be the man she slept

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

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a look of contempt, and

proper maiden sleep with another man 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 felt weary inwardly, but there was nothing else

of the building, he called

the restaurant, Irene returned to her hospital to visit her

apologized for failing to persuade Isaac, but Irene knew about Isaac‘s bad temper anyway,

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herself as

a nurse saw her and told her,” Your

she exclaimed in

course, I was just about to call you,” the