The Runaway Groom

Chapter 117

Ricky addressed Irene as ‘Sis’ the instant he stepped through the front door, but Irene remained impassive, and was certainly unaffected by that title.

“Why did you want to see me?”

“You’re a doctor, aren’t you? You must know people,” Ricky said tearfully. “You have to ask them to help Dad. His condition is very serious, and he won’t survive for long if he doesn’t get surgery.”

The usually haughty boy appeared despondent, just as Irene stiffened.

She had a hunch, but it still struck her like a truck to find out that it was reality.

“What did his doctor say? What’s his condition?” she asked quietly.

“Malignant brain cancer. It’s metastasized to his lungs,” Ricky replied.

Irene was stunned. “W-What?”

“You have to get him the best doctors, Sis. There might still be hope,” Ricky cried anxiously.

Irene, however, knew that the cancer had advanced to a very late stage if it had actually begun to metastasize, and not even surgery could help much.

As she became silent, Ricky demanded, “What, are you going to do nothing?’

to calm down. “Go home

reaction meant she was

have been a little overbearing about your marriage, but he’s your father. He’s sick and almost dying now-are you so cold that you

take me for, some sort of god? His cancer is

”

it and screamed, “You heartless

would be my own issue. Why are you getting

because you’re an ingrate! You won’t be

that he was here, yelling at

quick gesture, his men dragged Ricky out of the mansion, and Irene did not stop them, watching as Ricky continued to scream

out of sight, she

felt toward Lionel, her

she was acquainted with, but eventually hung up because the other person did not

my help?” Isaac

her head.

would look for help on her own, and

“If you need

then, emotional

for him when

was flesh and blood as well, and therefore had

don’t have to thank me,” Isaac