The Runaway Groom

Chapter 395

Irene simply thought it hilarious. “Yvaine died because of Mick’s selfishness. Yes, he saved her at first, but he also killed her, didn’t he? He wanted that inhibitor chip planted because he wanted her to forget the past, and if it was never implanted, it would never have caused her coma. Are you saying that he’s not a murderer for that? Don’t you think that Isaac should get revenge as Yvaine’s son?”

“Mick genuinely loved Yvaine,” Stephen replied.

He did not shy from asking Irene to sacrifice herself because he wanted to save Mick. After being friends. for years with the man, he knew how Mick felt toward Yvaine.

“Sure he is, but does Yvaine really love him back? If she did, why would she have married Andrew Jefferson? Moreover, did he have Yvaine’s permission to implant that chip?”

Irene was convinced that Mick was selfish-he had stolen Yvaine’s memories, and used love to disguise his crime of stealing another man’s wife and a boy’s mother.

“I won’t agree to this-no way. I won’t allow this to drive a wedge between my husband and myself, and you keep saying that Mick loves Yvaine, but that’s coercion more than anything.”

“It’s love,” Stephen insisted.

“I won’t agree to this.” Irene was resolute.

do me this favor, seeing that

something I can help with-Isaac has a right

had no choice

deep sigh, he

Stephen said, “I’ve

left staring at him with beady eyes. “Would she

his head but said

it was Mick’s inability to find the

had saved Yvaine, but

the surgical table, and shuddered at the sight of Yvaine’s lifeless

he did so. “Layla… It’s my fault. It’s all my fault… If

to bang his head against the floor, but

been pulled into another world of sorrow beyond measure, and amid the overwhelming grief,

I going to do without you…” He was choking back his tears, and even as he kissed her hand, his tears pooled on the ground.

Yvaine. Perhaps his selfishness and misguidedness was

stepped out of the operating room and into the walkway, where she stood, staring blankly