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 and her mother, and she had to work part time jobs during university to pay her tuition fees. A tragic

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

going to suffer without her

remained impassive, but his

her. He appeared even more relaxed then, and said

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and knew that Irene never

Isaac snorted coldly. Desperate?

desperate, why did she refuse to come to

was not desperate

say more for Irene‘s sake, but Isaac refused to listen.

go on now. “Just don‘t push her too

a cool glare then. “Do

he would go

he be the man she slept

her back at university, she rejected all of them. That‘s

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a look of contempt, and thought to himself that

cuckold? While Isaac glowered at those thoughts, Zachary did not notice what was happening with him. He felt weary inwardly, but there

the building, he called Irene outside

her hospital to

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

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herself as

saw her

she exclaimed

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

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