The Runaway Groom

Even at this juncture, Vivian was bent on foolishly shifting the blame to Lulu.

Grabbing Zachary's arm frantically, Vivian cried, "Wendy must have planned all this, Mr. Slate. Just arrest her-everything will be fine after."

Zachary had enough before she could finish and kicked her to the floor, leaving her looking up at him in disbelief even as she clutched her belly. "Mr. Slate..."

Zachary refused to speak another word to her and passed Star to Lulu. "Go to the car. I'll deal with this."

Lulu held Star firmly in her arms as she nodded repeatedly. "Okay."

Vivian was left staring blankly-why would Zachary still trust Wendy now?

"Mr. Slate, Wendy was the one who lost your baby!" she cried. "How could you still trust her? You're putting Star in danger!"

Zachary completely ignored her, however, and went in the precinct to speak with the officers inside.

He could no longer abide with Vivian after what she did to Star, even if Star turned out to be fine. There was no forgiving Vivian when she decided that Star was fair game too, which was why Zachary would have her arrested on kidnapping charges.

baby, but she had forgotten to drop it off at the precinct with Star. And

there was no arguing her way out, Vivian was locked up, still wondering why Zachary would trust Wendy so

her ambition, she lacked

reason to move against her if she had refrained from laying hands on Star. But with her having done so, Zachary would not play nice at that point-if anything,

all, Star was

just two days, proving Zachary's swiftness and

free time, he had put aside work to deal with

holding Star in her arms and feeding

Lulu right then, "I need to

where Zachary loosened his collar. "It was a

for not taking good care of Star," she said, though her tone soon changed. "But you knew how Vivian felt about

suddenly wheeled on Lulu, and

had to

speak," he

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