The Runaway Groom
Chapter 495

Chapter 495

Isaac's tone was sharp and ironic. "You? What else do you have left?"Stephen was left stumped right then.

Certainly, all the honors and accomplishments he accrued over hiscareer were gone, and he was slapped with the disgrace of causing adeath by negligence before his retirement.

But Isaac was the reason for all that!

As such, Stephen stubbornly snarled, "Fine. Do whatever you want tome and my family. I can't tell you a thing anyway, because I knownothing."

“You don't give up, do you?"

Isaac beckoned for someone to bring a chair which he sat on andcrossed his legs casually, appearing lofty and indomitable. "James,bring his family here."

Stephen panicked right then-he was fine with whatever they wouldthrow his way, but he did not want his family involved. "I would havetold you if I knew, but I don't. What am I supposed to tell you?!"

"The doctors who helped you with Irene's surgery have alreadyconfessed that she's alive, and you switched a burned body with hers,"Isaac growled as he leveled Stephen a sharp look. "You know very wellwhere she is-so stop pretending.”

Stephen feigned composure despite his fear. "They're lying. I don'tknow a thing.”

Isaac leaned against his chair, but he was clearly impatient. "Being softwith people like you only makes things worse. Do it, James-I'll takeresponsibility even if things get out of hand."

"Stop! Not my family!"

Stephen had been busy with work in his younger years and never spentmuch time with his family. After he was forced into a dishonorableretirement, it was his wife who stayed at his side as they weatheredthrough the difficult period after.

He would not allow his wife to suffer because of him again, or his childto encounter danger and difficulties at work.

Moreover, he knew how Isaac did things-he had firsthand experience.“1-1 can tell you, but under one condition-"

“You are not in a position to negotiate." Isaac simply cut him short.Stephen clenched his fingers and looked Isaac straight in the eye, andsuddenly laughed. "Did you know why Irene left you?"

He wanted to ask Isaac to support Irene’s career, and in turn tell Isaacwhere she was.

However, Isaac decided to go overboard, giving him no quarter-in thatcase, he had no reason to let him off easy!

On the other hand, Isaac remembered how determined she was inpushing him away, and said, "She thought that I didn't love her..."

“No, you're wrong." Stephen laughed. “It's Irene who doesn't love you.Back in that OR, she was grabbing me and begging me to help her runaway from you." 1

Isaac's placid expression started to crack, and Stephen continuedwhen he saw that. "She said being with you was painful.”

Even if he had no idea what trouble he would get Irene into just forsaying that, he knew that it would hurt Isaac, knocking his insufferablebutt off his perch.

Isaac would otherwise continue being pompous!

Stephen wanted payback too, because it was Isaac who pressured thechief of Melville Hospital into framing him for a patient's death-even ifthe patient was obviously beyond saving.

Forced to retire and stripped off all honors, everything he worked 50 hard for over the years crumbledovernight. 1

He would be lying If he sad that did not bear a grudge.

Deciding that it was not painful enough, Stephen continued, "That's not all— she was already in lovewith someone else, and even bore his child!”

Isaac's eyes narrowed into dark sits, his calmness vaporizing into fury.

He was a lion ready to pounce!

“Fuck you!” he growled