The Runaway Groom

Zachary was chuckling but he did not appear embarrassed.

Irene, however, was not humoring him. "Why were you following me?" "How was I following you?" Zachary argued. "You don't own this road. I can use it just like you."

"Weren't you going sightseeing with Jean? What are you doing here? You took one of the cars too."

"We did. We just didn't go that far."

Irene was left speechless and asked grumpily, "So? What do you want?"

"Nothing," Zachary said. "Just taking a stroll, killing time."

Irene ignored that and strode off to try to shake him off.

Zachary, however, clung to her like a wad of gum. “It's dangerous going alone. Why don't I come with you?"

"Nope." Irene refused right then. "Keep following me, and I'll tell Isaac you're bothering me."

Zachary pouted. "Don't we go way back?"

affecting my mood by following

working now that you're back? Really, I wonder what's more important to

"He's just busy with work. How does that affect

left speechless—to be fair, he was asking

he was following her

her in silence, which was

was exactly

let Irene and Isaac spend time together, he

she surely would be going

that was only if Lulu did come

didn't come back with me. She's gone after Martin died,

waved her off.

Irene was resolute about hiding Lulu from him, he would not

dead, Lulu probably had no place to

Lulu had was their

Jean, and Lulu would eventually come to