The runaway groom novel (Irene and Isaac) novel Chapter 870

Zachary stiffened.

He was silent for a while, before saying quietly, "I'm fine."

Opening his car door and getting into his car, he told Irene, "You should go back inside.

However, Irene strode up and put a hand on a window, struggling for a while before eventually saying, "You should give up."

Zachary looked up at her with sadness in his eyes. "I did."

Irene would have liked to offer more comfort, but she could not find the right words.

All she could have said would have been 'there's plenty of fish in the sea.'

But even if Zachary did find someone better, would he loved her more than he loved Lulu?

The hardest thing to do was to meet a person you genuinely loved, after all.

"I'm fine, don't worry. I'm not that weak," Zachary said as he started the car. "You should go back inside."

With that, he drove off, and Irene watched as he did.

For some reason, her heart ached a little for him now…

That was when she felt a hand on her shoulder, and she turned to find that it was Isaac.

"I think he's taking it really hard," she said.

"It's his business. Don't worry about him" Isaac told her, and put a hand around her shoulder as he led her back inside.

"You should check on him after dinner," Irene said.

"I know," Isaac replied.

…

Although Zachary did not linger at the dining table, he had curbed everyone's enthusiasm.

The atmosphere was unusually dull, save for the occasional clink as a fork or a knife met the plate.

James broke the silence, raising his glass and toasting Martin. "Thank you for coming all the way here to help."

"Oh, it's what we should do," Martin replied. "Transportation here is convenient anyway."

"Well, without Lulu finding out that Dennis Turner had been poisoned, we wouldn't have resolved the case so soon."

James was unenthusiastic, while Martin could not turn him down.