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?”

her mother, and she had to work part time jobs during university to pay her tuition fees. A tragic case on all counts,” Zachary said, earnestly defending Irene, telling her life story as well so

on, Isaac – she needs her job to pay her mother‘s medical bills. Can‘t you just

to suffer without

but his heart

even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully, “I don‘t

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could tell right then 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

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

she was desperate, why did she

she was not desperate enough!

refused to listen. “Like I said, tell her to come

to go on now. “Just don‘t

him a cool glare then.

close that he would go so

the

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

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shot him a look of contempt, and thought

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

out of the building, he called Irene outside the

restaurant, Irene returned to her hospital to visit her mother when she received

failing to persuade Isaac, but Irene knew about Isaac‘s bad temper anyway, and said, “It‘s

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herself as she headed inside her

saw her and told her,”

exclaimed in

the

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