The Runaway Groom

Chapter 48 When Isaac woke up, his nostrils were stung by the pungent scent of medicine. As he slowly sat up, his secretary came by to help. “Mr. Jefferson.” Isaac waved her off.

“I’m fine,” he said, taking a moment to compose herself before asking, “How’s Stan?”

“He’s unconscious, but the doctor already operated on him, so his life isn’t in danger,” the secretary replied. “The doctor has also advised you to rest since you had a minor concussion. Why don’t you rest a little?”

Isaac remembered the blood on Whitney’s legs just then. Pursing his lips in silence for a while, he eventually ended up asking, “How’s Whitney Cox?”

“The doctor said that she had a miscarriage. She’s fine otherwise apart from minor lacerations. She woke up when I arrived-she’s in the next ward.”

Then, hesitating for a moment, the secretary asked, “Should I call for her?”

Isaac raised a hand to stop her.

He was feeling mixed emotions just then-despite his disgust toward Whitney, and his reluctance to let her be the mother of her child, he had never thought about giving up on his child.

Now, however, the child was gone, and he naturally felt a little sad as a father.

to get even, or he would have to live

asked. “They are,” his secretary replied.

he should not be driving, “Start a search, and reach the culprit before the cops do,” he growled. “No killing, but make sure it’s a lesson to be

before that was exceedingly suspicious. That was why he wanted the absolute truth, for he would never allow anyone to mess with him on

replied. Isaac closed his eyes.

feeling

he closed his

end the day early. She was going to get a taxi

Jefferson told me to drive you to and from work,” the chauffeur replied as he opened the door

pursed her lips, unsure what Isaac was up to. Why mess around with other women when

for her and jogged to the driver’s seat, he asked, “Are we heading home, Mrs. Jefferson?” Irene hung her head when he said ‘home.’ Was that mansion really her home? Shaking her head, she said, “Take

“Of course, Mrs. Jefferson.”

after twenty minutes, but Henry Jefferson was not home, and his

about Whitney’s pregnancy. She was sure that if the old man knew that Isaac was a father now and had a woman he