The Runaway Groom

Chapter 55 “Irene Spencer!” Isaac bellowed, breathing each syllable louder than the next as his cheeks flushed crimson and turned dark, the veins in his neck bulging as if something could pop just then. Seizing her neck, he snarled, “I’ll strangle you to death right now!” “I know you will,” Irene replied with equal resolve and determination. “But I’m not afraid. I hate you!”

“Just because I slipped up and caused your miscarriage?” he asked, and continued because she answered, “I would’ve made you get an abortion even if I didn’t-I’d never let you give birth to a bastard just to mess with me! Everything’s just fine now, since I don’t have to do it myself. Guess even someone up there is refusing to let you have that bastard, that’s why the mistake happened in the first place!” Her repetitive use of ‘bastard’ stung Irene in the heart, leaving her utterly hysterical. “I hate you! I wish you were dead!”

Hate and fury blazed within her eyes.

On the other hand, Isaac’s hands flinched over her neck.

She wanted him dead because she had lost her bastard? He slowly released her, but growled, “You’re being delusional if you want to divorce me, Irene Spencer. I told you that the more you suffer when you’re with me, the more eager I would be to make you stay!

Irene’s fingers balled into a fist and eased. She did so repeatedly, until she gradually calmed down. “Whitney is already pregnant with your child, Isaac Jefferson. Are you so obsessed with grudges that you are refusing to make her your wife and start a family for your child’s sake? How does keeping me around benefit you at all?” “She had a miscarriage too,” Isaac simply said. “Because of that accident. Now, tell me — who was driving your SUV?”

Irene’s eyes widened. Whitney had a miscarriage too? Was that why Isaac was so furious that he personally punished the driver instead of waiting? She never felt a thing for her stepbrother, because that boy and his mother were the reason her parents’ marriage was such a mess.

“Ricky Spencer – Lionel Spencer’s bastard.”

If Isaac wanted revenge, he could have as much of it as he wanted.

promised as he sat beside her bed.

thought about the remaining twin in her belly, and knew that she would simply lose if she

such, she decided to compromise for appearance’s

Isaac distract himself with other matters-once he let his guard down,

ward was eerily silent, and the softest of breaths could be heard. It was Isaac who first broke the silence after a long while. “Let me take a look at you.” Irene said nothing to that. Staring at her, Isaac asked, “Why aren’t you saying a word?” However, it was not as if she

repulsed, and refused.

in any heart.” No? Then who is allowed to see-your beloved? You’d better pray I never find out who he is,

stared at him warily, but said, “Isaac, do

“Realize what?”

weird. Did you not realize it

inexplicable behavior, let alone why he insisted on keeping her

not disgusted with me just then?” Isaac’s visage shisted between various expressions right

attracted to Irene, but could not overcome the mental obstacle that she was

was why he was not willing-even afraid-to admit

Isaac Jefferson, fallen in love with a woman with loose