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?”

We graduated 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

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

to suffer

impassive, but his heart was

was not reason enough to forgive her. He appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully, “I don‘t mind forgiving her if she comes to me on her own,

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that Irene never liked to bother others, so he explained, “She wouldn‘t

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

desperate, why did

she was not desperate

say more for Irene‘s sake, but Isaac refused

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

a cool glare then. “Do

he would

the man she

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

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look of contempt, and thought to himself that

While Isaac glowered

building, he

returned to her hospital to visit her mother when

Isaac, but Irene knew about Isaac‘s bad temper anyway, and said, “It‘s fine. You don‘t have to

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herself as she headed inside her mother‘s

in, a nurse saw her and told her,” Your mother is

exclaimed

to call you,” the nurse replied, “You should go check on her.”