The Runaway Groom

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Chapter 444

Isaac stared at the letter for a long while without moving, as if he was frozen stiff.

He was simply staggered... To think that Yvaine Lynd had written such a letter to Irene!

He certainly never expected his mother to remember everything but not come back to him because she fell in love

with Mick Gooding!

Haha... the irony! His mother fell in love with another man. Did she even think what that made of his father?

His fingers clenched, and the paper crumpled in his grasp.

Stephen was mentioned in the letter...

Rising to his feet, he stormed toward Stephen's office.

Stephen looked up the instant he opened his office door and quickly rose to his feet when he saw that it was Isaac.

While he had weathered his fair share of drama with patients and their families over the years, he felt pure,

gripping fear around Isaac.

Perhaps because he was feeling guilty and hid a lot of things from the man, he did not dare to meet Isaac's gaze.

Even as he kept his eyes elsewhere, he asked, "Is there a problem, Mr. Jefferson?"

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Isaac remained quiet, and he slowly and steadily walked toward Stephen.

Stephen felt a suffocating pressure weighing down on Isaac each step he took, and the air in his small office

suddenly seemed thinner.

"What is it?” Stephen asked anxiously, but that was when he noticed the letter Isaac was holding, and sharply

spotted Mick Gooding's name on it.

What?!

He quickly looked up at Isaac just then, murmuring, "What..."

"How did Yvaine Lynd die?" Isaac asked very quietly, but anyone listening attentively could hear that there was rage

in his words that could erupt at any moment.

He was certainly smart enough to catch the gist of the letter.

On the other hand, while Stephen did not know how much Isaac knew or if he found out about everything, the fact

that he came to demand an explanation made it obvious that he knew certain facts.

With Mick brought overseas to recover and Irene herself abroad too, it was time he took responsibility.

Breathing a deep sigh, he said, 'Til tell you everything."

Still, he did not know where to start, and paused for a moment to put together the right words.

"It all began over ten years ago, when Mick saved your mother. He brought her and came to me, begging me to

save her.

"He and I used to go way back, so I agreed to it.

"However, he was worried that your mother would return to the Jeffersons after she woke up, and that they would

keep hurting her if she did.

"That was why he asked me to make her lose her memories-which I did through surgery.

"And once she recovered without remembering the past, Mick gave her a new identity and took her abroad.

"They returned this year, because the thing in her head became life threatening and she needed another surgery.

Unlike the two surgeries she had before, we were supposed to remove it this time, and she would regain her

memories once we did.

"Mick, worried that she would leave him, hesitated instead of agreeing to it right away.

"He eventually agreed to it, but she suddenly suffered a massive hemorrhage in the brain, and it was too late by the

time she was rushed here. Any surgery at that point would mean nothing.

"Unsurprisingly, she died.

"There was a chance that she might have survived if Mick didn't hesitate.

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"I was worried that you would retaliate against him, and therefore decided to cover up the issue as a surgical

mistake, even asking Irene to be our scapegoat.

"Although she was in the OR with us, I only called her there because I knew Yvaine wouldn't make it. It was

pointless, but she tried her damndest to save Yvaine anyway.

"At first, Irene refused to be our scapegoat, but soon agreed to it afterwards for some reason.

"Naturally, I had to work on Yvaine's body afterward so that you didn't notice that anything was wrong.

"As a doctor, and having my specialized knowledge, I know enough on what to do to deceive a forensic doctor and

any personnel from the field.

"To no surprise, the outcome of your investigation was that it was a surgical mishap.

"That is all there is to it.

"I was helping a friend, but I also violated my ethics as a doctor. If I am told to face the consequences, I will meet it

head-on."

Naturally, Isaac knew the earlier parts of what Stephen told him.

He just did not know that Yvaine's death had nothing to do with Irene at all.

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