The Runaway Groom
Chapter 357

Chapter 357

Taking Irene’s silence as approval, Harvey followed her to the hospital chief's office.

Even from a distance, they could hear Chad shouting and breaking various objects.

“Call Irene Spencer here now!” he was yelling madly.

Harvey sneaked a glance at Irene to see no expression on her face at all, leaving him speechless and thinking that she was genuinely ice— cold

It was rare for someone to retain such composure in the face of potential danger, and Harvey's admiration for her only grew.

The door to the chief's office was half—closed, and Irene quietly opened it.

“Chief...”

“Irene Spencer!”

Chad lunged toward her in a frenzy, but Harvey stood in his way. “Talk if you want, but don't resort to violence—any man who lays a finger on a woman is no man at all.”

“Who are you?!" Chad snarled at him, his eyes red. “Mind your business! She's the reason I lost my child! Why shouldn't I kill her right now?!”

“That has nothing to do with me,” Irene said, leveling Chad a cool look. “You can investigate that for yourself.”

“How? There are no cameras in the stairway!” Chad snorted. “Is that why you're telling me to investigate? Because you knew I won't have evidence? I haven't gotten payback, and you're already coming

for my family, huh?!"

“Why would I want anything to do with you?” Irene asked.

That actually left Chad thinking, and he realized that he had no fight with Irene at all. In fact, he was the one who tried to use her to threaten Isaac when Whitney fell into the ocean.

“Even if there are no issues between us, you have a grudge against Whitney,” Chad growled, clenching his fists and looking ready to swing it at any instant. “That's why you pushed her off the stairs so that she would lose her child, or am I wrong? Do you even know how much I wanted that child? I would have been a father if not for you!” Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

“You should be questioning Whitney,” Irene calmly replied. “She rolled down the stairs herself to set me up.”

“Don’t bother lying. I won't believe you.” Chad glowered at her. “You're just trying to avoid responsibility- she'd never do that to her own child!" “You've been with her for so long, but you still don’t understand her at all, do you?” Irene thought then that Chad was so blinded by his love for Whitney that he could not see her true colors.

“Don’t try to frame her. I'm telling you—you're dead meat!” Chad snapped, and wheeled on the hospital chief. “She's a doctor here, and my wife has suffered a miscarriage because of her. You had better do something or this is not going to be over.”

However, the hospital chief had a good impression toward Irene, and since both were sticking to their own version of what happened, he said, “We will investigate this matter-"

“Investigate? Do not give me that,” Chad growled as he planted himself on the couch, his words staunch.”

You are just trying to defend your own employees, and you would just end up saying that my wife jumped off the stairs herself. So don't bother going through the motions and fire her already.”

That was when Stephen stood up. “I'm Dr. Spencer's mentor, and it is natural that I should take responsibility for her actions.”

"Dr. Carr-"

Irene was about to speak, but Stephen held up a hand to stop her. He was earnest in grooming her as his apprentice, and did not want her to leave the hospital over something like this.

“You will take responsibility? How?" Chad narrowed his eyes at Stephen.

“You want her fired, right? I will resign instead.” Stephen said, though he already had a way out-having a doctorate, he could just get rehired as a lecturer.

However, Chad was not so easily dissuaded. “No. Irene Spencer did it, and I want her gone.”

Whitney must have goaded him into such obstinance, but even Harvey could not stand him just then, and was just stopping short of fisticuffs. In fact, with the way they were all sticking to their own standpoint and not giving in at all, a fight looked inevitable.

“How do you call yourself a man, getting so petty over a woman?"

“I lost a child.” Chad rose to his feet, leveling a furious glare at Harvey. Harvey simply retorted, “Irene wouldn't hurt anyone. I promise that with my own reputation.”

Chad snorted. “Your reputation? How much is that worth, or is it worth more than my child's life?”

“Watch your words,” Harvey growled, and started toward Chad.

That was when the door opened, and Irene did a double take when she saw who it was.

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