Chapter 281 – Second Chance Love of the Missing Groom Novel

“He’ll be here soon.You can talk to him here.” He told Zachary to come over so that Abigail did not have to make a trip.

Abigail nodded.

After half an hour, Zachary arrived and he was led to the private booth by a host.

“Diarmuid—”

He was going to speak with Diarmuid immediately, but froze completely when he saw the person beside him.He thought he was seeing things.He rubbed his eyes and looked again, but she was still there.

“Abigail?” he called out tentatively, but soon decided that he must be mistaken—Abigail was dead and they even saw her corpse.

How could she still be alive? Did Diarmuid miss her so much he got himself a woman who looked just like her? Pulling out a chair and sitting, he asked, “Where did you find this lady, Diarmuid? She looks just like Abigail— “

Abigail gave him a look.

“I’m not dead.”

Zachary sprang to his feet again from shock, disbelief registering all over his face.

“It’s a long story.”

Abigail did not want to go into detail, since it was between her and Diarmuid.

“I have a question—did Lulu really cause Ember Lindt’s miscarriage?”

Zachary was not at all surprised that she asked that, since she and Lulu were close.

Still, he lowered his gaze at the mention of Lulu.

“Yes.”

Abigail clenched on her fork.

“And you believe Ember?”

“I saw her push Ember with my own eyes,” Zachary said.

Even so, disappointment showed in Abigail’s eyes—even if he saw it, that did not mean it was true.

Moreover, she would never believe that Lulu would do something like that.

Because she would never stoop so low! But if Zachary did not believe her either, how sad and disappointed would she be? “We can discuss this further when I see Lulu again.”

Her tone was clearly cold—things would become clear when she met Lulu.

“I don’t think you will,” Zachary said unhappily just then.

“I’m looking for her too—I’m actually here to ask for Diarmuid’s help to find out where she’s hiding, actually.”

“Hiding?”

Abigail frowned—she did not like that word, because the Lulu she knew would never hide despite such a predicament.

And since Zachary used the term, it goes to show that he never knew Lulu despite the years they spent together.

It was more or less tragically disappointing, considering that they had known each other since medical school.

Still, Abigail did not jump to conclusions.

“I’ll find her and get to the bottom of this,” she said, and turned back to her food without looking at Zachary—even though it was a lot less appetizing now.

“Tell me right away when you find her,” Zachary said.

Abigail fed herself a spoonful of caviar, keeping her eyes lowered as she chewed slowly.

“Why would you want to see her? To interrogate her?”

“No, I’m just worried—”

“Why pretend to care? You believe that she pushed Ember.”

“What do you mean pretend?”

Zachary heaved.

“I lost my child, and I watched as she pushed Ember off the stairs and caused her miscarriage.But I never blamed her, and was actually worried when she suddenly went into hiding.How am I the bad guy here? Because I’m searching for her? Haven’t I done enough?!”

Abigail simply looked on as he argued his case vindictively, but did Not argue.

All she had was her words, and Zachary would never believe whatever she had to say.

However, she would find out how Ember ‘fell’.

“Eat,” she said flatly.

“No,”

Zachary got to her feet and left.He was certainly upset—his child was gone, and although he never blamed Lulu, Abigail was insistent that it was his fault.

Who would understand his woes? Back at the private booth, Diarmuid had a guilty look on his face.

“Abigail…”

Abigail held his gaze just then.

“What?”

“This is good.Try it,” Diarmuid said, putting a chunk of meat on her plate.

She cut a slice and put it in her mouth, but it was not until she started chewing when she realized that something was suspicious.

Turning toward Diarmuid warily, she asked, “Why are you being weird? “You’re just being paranoid,” Diarmuid told her.

“Here.Have some more.”

That only aroused Abigail’s suspicion further.

“Really? You’re not hiding something from me?”

“What do I have to hide?”

Diarmuid actually sounded confident, because he had nothing to hide.

However, Ricky Bernstein had asked to see him before, but he was too busy—now that he thought about it, it might have been because of Lulu.He was therefore feeling guilty, and worried that Abigail would get upset because he did not get involved.

“More,” he said, and kept pushing more food to her, until there was a small hill of food on her plate.

Abigail was speechless —was she a pig or something?

“I can’t finish this,” she told him.

“Then leave it,”

Diarmuid said, tucking her hair behind her ear.

The nagging feeling of something suspicious hit Abigail again, when a thought occurred to her.

Putting down her knife and fork, she leveled him a serious look.

“Did you hook up with other women while I was gone?”

“What are you talking about?” Diarmuid replied with a solemn look “I’d never touch any other woman.”

“Really?”

Abigail doubted that —he had that dream back at Minerva while she massaged him as ‘Jane Tanner’, and even kissed Jane! If it had not been her, he would have kissed another woman! “Are you doubting me?”

Diarmuid’s expression turned grim.

“I recall you kissing Jane Tanner,” Abigail told him.

“You didn’t know it was me at the time.”

Diarmuid blinked, his thick eyelashes fluttering in turn.

Did he? But he had no recollection of that at all…

“My tastes aren’t that poor, Abigail Bernstein.There was not even a single kissable spot after you put on that disguise.Where should I even kiss you?”

Abigail helped his gaze for heartbeats, but decided to let it go since he was dreaming and it was hardly reality.

“Fine.I’ll let it go this one time,”she said magnanimously.

Diarmuid was not about to take that, however.

“I’d never have kissed ‘ Jane Tanner’…Unless you’re the one who kissed me.”

Abigail was speechless, and remembered just then that she was the one who kissed him while he was asleep.

Then, perhaps reacting from a dream, he held her in place…

In short, she initiated it.

“Oh, I’m full.Let’s go.”

She quickly changed the subject.

Diarmuid read her mind, but did not expose her, and instead left with her.

After they got into his car, Abigail put on her seatbelt while saying, “I need to head to Bernstein Mansion.”

While Diarmuid started the ignition, he told her, Your mom is staying at our home.”

“I need to see Ricky,” she explained, because she knew that Ricky would have all the details, and everything would come clear once they questioned him.

Diarmuid gave her a look.

“Don’t you miss Tommy?”

“I do.”

How could she not? However, she knew that Tommy was fine.

On the other hand, she was worried about Lulu’s disappearance.

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