The Runaway Groom
Chapter 499

Chapter 499

Isaac Jefferson, you have every right to not love me... But you have noright to question my virtue."

With that, Irene reached for the doorknob, opening it with a click.However, Isaac caught her hand. "I'm sorry.”

Stephen's words had struck him where it hurt, and he let his own angerget the battle of him.

Moreover, she really was pregnant, which was why he had such a poorchoice of words.

“Irene, if I didn't love you, I'd never be with you even if we had tenchildren. All I wanted to do was protect you, that's why I said I was onlystaying with you because of Tommy-the more I showed concern for youin front of lan, the more he would want to hurt you."

Irene looked up, forgetting her scars in shock.

He had said that because he did not want lan to hurt her.

So, was it all just a misunderstanding?

Isaac's eyes landed on her scars then and his expression darkenedfurther.

His throat felt stiff and he could not speak.

Irene came to her senses when she realized what he was looking at.She quickly tried to hide it, but her hands seemed to be at a loss if sheshould brush her hair over it or pull up her collar.

Looks are everything for women, and it was natural that she did notwant the man she loved to see her hideous face.

“Don't look," she murmured, lowering her head.

Nonetheless, Isaac cupped her face so that she looked at himself.

Two pairs of eyes-one evasive, the other gazing lovingly.

He studied the burn scars that stretched from her face to neck. Theskin was left wrinkled, uneven, and reddened-unseemly, even hideous.All he felt was pain and heartache.

Irene's eyes welled with tears. "Don't look. It's ugly.”

She certainly did not like the way he stared, taking in her ugliest state.Isaac simply gathered her in his arms, his face pressing against theburned side of her face and whispering gently into her ear, "It isn't."Irene knew very well how she looked. "You're lying."

"It must have hurt," he simply said, carefully caressing her and kissingher on the forehead. "I'm sorry."

He blamed himself for not protecting her, allowing lan to capture her,and for saying what he did without thinking, sending her running awaywith their child.

Irene leaned on his chest and asked, "How did you know I was here?"She did not understand how Isaac discovered her-he never realizedthat' Jane Tanner’ was actually her back in Minerva.

"Stephen Carr... And I'll definitely kill him," Isaac growled through histeeth, having almost fallen for Stephen's lies.

Now that he had calmed down and thought about it, the look onStephen's face made it clear that he was messing with him, intent onprovoking him.

"Stephen?" Irene was actually surprised.

"He told me that you fell in love with someone else and did everythingto leave me..."

"He said that?" Irene looked up at him. “Is that why you believe I waswith someone else and had their child?"

I... I didn't believe him," he said, clearly averting his eyes in guilt.

He had let his anger get the better of him, but he would not have if hehad doubted Stephen.

After all, Stephen told him that Irene left him because she no longerloved him-what if it was true?

He felt uncertain about why she left, but now he knew, and it was allbecause she misunderstood him.

"Isaac Jefferson, actually feeling guilty?"

it had hurt her considerably when he asked her who the father was.

"What a coincidence-1 need to talk to Stephen. Ill ask him why he said that when I do, so areyou coming along?” she asked.

She naturally wanted to prove that Stephen was lying.

After all, she had been gone for months, and it was natural for Isaac to get suspicious nowthat she was pregnant.

It just went to show that they did not fully trust each other yet.

Isaac naturally would not refuse her, but he did not want it to be today. "We can go tomorrow-"“Its urgent. Tomorrow would be too late," she insisted.

Isaac had no choice but to take her there, and they soon arrived.

Irene pressed the doorbell, and someone soon answered...