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

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 her off this

going to suffer without her

remained impassive, but his heart was

was not reason enough to forgive her. He appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully,

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Irene, and knew that Irene never liked to bother others, so he explained,

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

desperate, why did she refuse to come to

meant she was not desperate

Irene‘s sake, but Isaac refused to listen.

on now. “Just don‘t push her

cool glare then. “Do

they that close that he would go so far for

be the man

many boys who liked her and tried to woo her back at university, she rejected all of them. That‘s a

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of contempt, and

her wedding night, and make him a cuckold? While Isaac glowered at those thoughts, Zachary did not notice what was happening with him. He

of the building, he called Irene outside the

to her hospital to visit

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

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herself as she headed inside her mother‘s

nurse saw her and told her,” Your

exclaimed in

call you,” the nurse replied, “You should go check

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