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?”

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 all counts,” Zachary

Zahcary continued, “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

going to suffer

impassive, but his heart

appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully,

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

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

she was desperate, why did she

she was

Irene‘s sake, but Isaac refused to listen. “Like I

on now. “Just

a cool glare

close that he would go so far

be the

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 weren‘t spoken

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shot him a look of contempt, and thought to himself that he

about her integrity? Would a 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

of the building, he called

Irene returned to her hospital to

about Isaac‘s bad temper anyway,

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composed herself as she headed

saw her and told

she exclaimed in

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