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?”

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

could, so we‘re good friends. Come on, Isaac – she needs her job to pay her mother‘s

suffer without her

but his heart was actually

her. He appeared even more relaxed then, and said thoughtfully, “I don‘t mind

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

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

did she refuse to come to

she was not desperate enough!

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

that it was futile to go on now. “Just don‘t push her too far–she did help you before, remember

him a cool glare

close that he would go so

the

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

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and thought

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

he called Irene outside

leaving the restaurant, Irene returned to her hospital to visit her mother when she received Zachary‘s

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

a nurse saw her and told

exclaimed in

was just about to call you,” the nurse replied, “You