The Runaway Groom
Chapter 478

Chapter 478

The mole had been pasted on the tip of Irene's nose and it startedflapping about as she breathed, dangling and stopping short ofdetaching.

Isaac was staring at her, and she was close enough for him to smell thethick scent of makeup.

Frowning so much his brows almost met, he told her, “Your mole isfalling off.”

Irene quickly clasped a hand over her nose-she blinked her fakeeyelashes even as Isaac kept staring at her.

"Don't tell me it's a fake mole to look pretty?" he asked.

Irene racked her brains, and said, "O-Of course not. I've been applyingsome ointment to remove it."

Plucking the fake mole off and holding it out to show Isaac, she said,"See? It totally dried up and fell off-"

Isaac growled, 'Keep that away from me."

Disgusting!

Irene smiled, took out a tissue, and rolled the mole into it beforethrowing it into a basket, then continued to apply the ointment on Isaacto curb his itch.

When she was done, she told him, "You have to wait until it dries beforeyou sleep.”

“You're not leaving tonight," he said.

As he spoke, he entered his bedroom and shut his door behind him.What?!

But she was going to the hospital to replace out how her bath salt gotmixed up with the drug that caused oversensitive skin... Somethingfishy was clearly going on!

"Why?" she asked, knocking on the bedroom door.

"So that I can arrest you if it turns out that you were intentionally hurtingme."

Irene was speechless-she had already made herself clear! How couldhe still doubt her?

'1 didn't mean to hurt you," she told him again, but Isaac ignored her.Having no choice, she lay down on the couch, feeling drowsy.

Isaac somehow fell asleep without her massage, whereas Irene wasleft toiling all the way until the morning.

By then, most of Isaac's rash had faded and stopped itching, so hefinally let her go.

Still, Irene left some medication with James and told him to make surethat Issac applied it.

She was tired after a long night, and her face was pale.

Even so, her mind was clear-she got the medicinal bath salt from thehospital, and it had to be an insider who messed with it.

Word spread like wildfire that Irene might soon be fired, and everyonewas left in an uproar as they speculated the reason.

"But, why? Everyone acknowledges that she's a great doctor..."

“True. Maybe she offended someone important?

"Probably. Why else would something like this happen out of the blue?"Irene was pretending to be dismayed as well—it was an act, to trick thepeople who set her up into believing that she really was going to befired.

After all, people tended to expose themselves when they let down theirguard.

She had her eyes on two of her rivals-Bob and Daisy-since the restwere attending physicians.

If anything happened to her at this juncture of their research, both ofthem stand to gain much.

As such, she decided to tail Bob.

He headed down to the basement parking lot, but did not leaveimmediately. Instead, he stood beside his car, looking like he waswaiting for someone.

Irene kept an eye on him from afar, and that was when she sawsomeone else arriving.

It was Daisy!

Irene was left gaping. Both of them were working together to set herup?

As they got in the car and left, Irene got into Jeff Cartman's car whichwas waiting in the basement parking lot as well, saying, "Follow them."“I know," Jeff replied-Irene had asked him for help before, and theytracked her rivals’ car all the way to a large house, where they bothalighted and got inside.

They appeared intimate, and Jeff mused, "Are they a couple?"

Irene was curious too, and the possibility could not be discounted.Bob and Daisy were in the same age group and were said to havegraduated from the same medical school as well.

Still, they were rarely in touch at the hospital.

Irene whispered, “Let's get to a window-see if we can get a closerlook."

Jeff nodded-most houses in Minerva stood alone, and they circledaround to a window at the backyard, and peered into the living room.Bob was sitting on the couch with Daisy in his arms. "Jane Tanner isdead meat. Guess the next promotion is either you or me."

"Oh, you can take it-just make sure I get the next one. But if I get it, I'llmake sure you get the next one too... Let's get married when we'reboth promoted to attending physicians,” Daisy cooed as she leanedinto Bob's arms.

"Yeah," Bob murmured as he brushed his fingers through her hair.'We're lucky you caught wind that the Zidonian patient had acquiredMead Clinic shares-and from the Raideen family, no less. Now thatJane upsetted him, it's all over for her."