The Runaway Groom

Chapter 436

The patient on the bed was burned from her right cheek down to her neck.

Although it had been bandaged and medicated, the gruesome carnage underneath could not be concealed.

Unlike incisions or lacerations, burn scars remain because the dead skin cells would linger.

While grafting and plastic surgery were advanced enough to restore Irene’s face completely, the problem was that she was pregnant right now.

She must get an abortion for the antibiotics necessary for surgeries, and even if she did not, it would lead to defects in fetal development or a miscarriage.

Stephen tried to reason with her, saying, “You can have another baby…”

Irene was staring blankly up at the white, fluorescent lights that were dizzying, and closed her eyes. “No. There’s a reason I survived that explosion… Maybe it’s someone up there intent on having me keep my baby.”

In the instant she was falling into the river, she somehow slipped out of the explosive vest, which only detonated after she dropped underneath the river.

Though the resulting flames and shockwave still struck her while she was underwater, she survived her injuries.

did not matter

life and death for the ladies, she had no use for it. Was there

“Isaac Jefferson is devastated

grieving me. He’s probably just sorry for

usual passion and liveliness–what Isaac said before left her feeling

would recover in five days at most, but I don’t want to stay or I might have second thoughts. Book me a flight to

to be, at

me so much with Mick, I’ll do whatever I can

a while, and told her what was weighing down on his mind. “I’m worried that the body

tied to me. He

fully intact when you were brought in–it’s only natural that we used an intact body as well, “Stephen pointed

you for getting the perfect replacement,”

and one of them was a woman with around the same weight and height. She was burned extensively to the point there’s no chance of recognition, so Isaac won’t be able to tell as long as he doesn’t

of Isaac’s boys holding your baby. Suffice to say, I think he had been rescued along with

Irene. Although he was too far away to capture Tommy’s face, Irene could recognize

at the thought of leaving him and not seeing him, suffocating

sorry… I’m