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?”

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

when I could, so we‘re good friends. Come on, Isaac – she needs

going to suffer without her

his

forgive her. He appeared even more relaxed then,

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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

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

she was desperate, why did she refuse

just meant she was not desperate enough!

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

it was futile to go on now. “Just don‘t push

a cool glare

that close that he would

could he be the man she

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.

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

proper? What 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 was happening with him.

out of the building, he called Irene outside

hospital to visit

knew about Isaac‘s bad temper anyway, and said, “It‘s

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as

instant she got in, a nurse saw her and

she exclaimed in

to call you,” the nurse replied,

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