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?”

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,”

“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 bills. Can‘t

to suffer without

but his heart was actually

though that was not reason enough to forgive her. He appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully, “I don‘t

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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?

did she refuse

she was not desperate

say more for Irene‘s sake, but Isaac refused to listen. “Like I said, tell her to

and Zachary knew that it was futile to go on

glare then.

that close that he would go so

the man she slept

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 for…

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

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. He felt weary inwardly, but

out of the building, he

restaurant, Irene returned to her hospital to visit her

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

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she composed herself as

nurse saw

she exclaimed

to call you,” the nurse replied,