The Runaway Groom
Chapter 850

Irene gingerly asked Lulu, "Are you alright? I just wanted to get a nicer hotel. I didn't think we would run into Zachary—"

"Irene." Lulu cut her short with a smile. "I'm fine."

Studying Lulu's face for seconds, Irene decided to keep quiet after ensuring that she was.

Changing the subject, she asked, "You've been away for a while. Anything you'd like to eat? It's my treat." Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ (ꜰind)ɴʘvel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Lulu thought about it. “Strawberry cake."

Irene was speechless—they could get that anywhere!

"Just cake? It's not that often you come back."

"Fine, but after dinner.”

Martin joined them as they headed out to eat, before getting the strawberry cake as well.

"When can I take a look at the body?" Lulu asked.

"Anytime. Isaac has already arranged everything with the hospital," Irene said. "But you should rest before you go—it was a long journey and you're pregnant.”

"No. If it's alright with you, I'd like to get it done soon and head home." It was obvious that Lulu did not want to linger, so Irene called Isaac to make the arrangements, while she went with them in the same car. After Eagle parked the car behind the hospital, they sneaked in since what they were doing was highly irregular.

If Neil were to find out, Irene would be in further trouble.

And since it was not as if Neil would agree to a post-mortem, they had to keep things quiet!

James Cross led them to the morgue, which was at a quiet corner beneath the parking lot.

They felt a gust of cold air hitting their face the instant the elevator doors opened, but Martin and Lulu remained composed since they were used to it.

Isaac, however, was worried—there was a chance Dennis's death was caused by the surgery or the artificial heart.

Isaac was waiting in the corridor outside. He took Irene’s hand when she arrived, quietly saying, "Calm down."

Irene looked at him in surprise. "Do I look that worried?"

She had already kept herself under control!

At the same time, James pulled Dennis's body from the morgue drawer, while Lulu and Martin joined him.

Irene was going to do so since he was concerned about Lulu, but Isaac stopped her. "Don't."

"Why?" she asked.

“You'd just affect them.”

Even if they were not superstitious, corpses were still a jinx and Isaac did not want Irene to be near.

Irene was in turn speechless.

How would she affect them? Even if she was no forensic doctor, she more or less knew how things work.

Martin came to them just then and asked, "Can we cut the body open?" "No," Irene said.

Martin appeared awkward right then. "Well, we're not finding anything unusual outside..."

"Do it," Isaac said.

"But..."

"I'll take responsibility for any issues afterwards," Isaac said, easing his mind. "Just do what you have to. Don't worry."

Seeing that Isaac was dependable, Martin returned to Lulu and gave her the green light.

James brought them the tools they needed, and everything went smoothly since autopsies were Lulu's specialty.

Her examination was thorough, too, and she soon found something suspicious.

"He might have been poisoned,” Lulu said.

Irene frowned. "What? Poisoned?!"

She thought about a lot of possibilities, from her surgery to emotional trauma... but not poisoning.

“I'm basically sure,” Lulu said, passing Irene a bag. "You can ask someone to perform a lab test on this."

"Okay," Irene said as she took it. She then told James to send Lulu and Martin back to their hotel.

As for her, she was heading to Hotmesh Research to test the substance Lulu handed her, with Isaac's company.

She put on a lab coat and headed inside the lab, while Isaac sat outside, watching her work through the window.

Cloud City was certainly quiet late at night...

Crash!

The silence was abruptly cut short!

Isaac sprang to his feet and opened the door, asking, "What happened?!"

He then looked to the floor...

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