The Runaway Groom Chapter 283


    Chapter 283


    Chad’s wife had executed her n meticulously-she even managed to misdirect Stan, who had traced


    the message she sent to Isaac back ton’s casino ship.


    Now that Isaac had turned against his family and were on the brink of conflict, she could naturally ce


    the me on the other Jeffersons.


    Moreover, everyone believed that she was dead.


    No one would even suspect her.


    Jimmy the chauffeur started looking around the hospital as the skies darkened, but Irene was nowhere


    to be found.


    Hence, he called Isaac, who had just returned home and was standing just outside the door, to inform


    him of that. “What?!”


    “Mrs. Jefferson is missing,” Jimmy repeated, sweat forming over forehead just then-he was worried that


    Isaac would be furious if harm came to Irene.


    “How long has she been gone?” Isaac demanded.


    “It’s probably been seven hours now. I parked the car after she left, and I never saw her since. I thought


    she would be busy, so I waited, but she never came out, and she wasn’t anywhere when I looked…”


    Isaac snapped, “Didn’t I tell you to keep an eye on her?”


    Jimmy might be a chauffeur, but his main profession was as a bodyguard…


    But he had lost her!


    Knowing that he had been careless, Jimmy apologized. “I’m sorry.”


    That was not what Isaac wanted to hear just then. “Where did you lose her?”


    “Central Hospital, over at the Second Militarized Zone.”


    Isaac promptly hung up and turned around, calling Stan even as he strode back to his car. However,


    someone called his phone before he could call Stan, and it was from Irene’s number.


    He quickly answered it.


    “Irene…?”


    “It’s Ricky,” Ricky said icily over the phone. “Come to the unfinished building at Big Short. You’d better


    come alone if you want to save her, or I can’t promise that you’d actually see her again.”


    “Don’t you dare hurt her,” Isaac said calmly and steadily.


    There was ack of emotion in his voice, and Ricky could not even see his face, but he felt an


    intangible yet suffocating pressure nheless!


    Clearly inexperienced and unable to match Isaac’s assertiveness, Ricky had to feign


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    Isaac promptly got in his car and drove to the address Ricky gave. It was a grim and barren ce, its


    surroundings littered with cracked boulders, moss-covered bricks, and rusted steel frames.


    He alighted and strode into the building, but found no one.


    That was when his phone rang again with another text from Irene’s phone: [Sorry, wrong address. It’s


    the East Docks.]


    Ricky had clearly sent it, and he was obviously messing with Isaac.


    He scowled, but decided that he could not do anything to him, since he had Irene.


    Returning to his car, he drove to the East Docks, but his phone jingled again with another text from


    Ricky when he was about to get down.


    [Oh, I’m so sorry. I made another oopsie.]


    Isaac simply kept staring at the screen, knowing that Ricky would keep texting him.


    [Go back to the first location.]


    Restraining his temper, Isaac started his car again and returned to the unfinished building.


    As he stopped, he did not get off immediately-who knows if Ricky was ‘childish’ enough to make


    another ‘oopsie’?


    He alighted when Ricky did not, and headed upstairs via the bare concrete stairs. This time, he found


    Irene!