The Runaway Groom

Chapter 438

Nonetheless, James hurried to Isaac’s side. “Sir.”

Isaac glanced at him briefly and asked, “Did you find a place?”

“Yes, sir,” James replied. “We can use it in a couple days.”

“Good.” Isaac remained impassive.

At the same time, James turned toward the man with them, who was dressed formally over his exceedingly fair skin. Also, there was something shady about that face even though he clearly appeared solemn.

“Sir, who is this gentleman?”

Isaac did not answer, and instead headed straight inside the operating room with the man.

James followed, curious.

The man first put down his box and opened it, taking out a pair of gloves and wearing it before pulling off the sheet placed over Irene’s head.

He frowned when he saw the face. “…I don’t think I can do anything here. Burn scars only regenerate on living tissue, but if she’s dead, I can’t restore her face.”

In reality, he was the best mortician Isaac had found to reconstruct cadavers so that they would look their best before they were buried.

Despite his specialty in reinvigorating cold bodies and bestowing upon them eternal beauty, he was shaking his head. “The damage is too extensive. I can’t do much here.”

there was a brief flash of disappointment in

die with the way she looked

mortician said, “I’d suggest

quickly echoed, “Yeah, or we could put her in an ice casket if you don’t want to

to wait until Stan set up the freezer, and they would just put the ice casket inside soon after -it

the mortician agreed. “Leaving her out here is going to

was not as if Isaac

once Irene’s body was placed in a casket, he would lose whatever fantasy he had

the morgue was a

now, he refused

may, present circumstances prevented

spoke almost inaudible, “Get it

could not restore Irene’s face, he did

left,

was no longer the high–and–mighty bigwig who faced his own family’s abandonment with

for it turned out that he felt pain and misery

pain was profound, suffocating

however he could. He also applied a special powder that would stall putrefaction before they put the body

when Ricky

floor when he saw the unrecognizable body. “No. No way, it can’t be her…” he murmured, and grabbed the hem of

then and

wasn’t there when it happened, but the people who were there saw the explosion, and she was in the middle of it.

us.”