Chapter 336 – Second Chance Love of the Missing Groom Novel

“Y-You’re alive?”

He was so thrilled, but even as he dawdled between tears and laughter, the stewardess found him unhinged instead.

“Did you get the wrong person?”

Zachary could not care less right then, and he pulled her tightly into his arms.

Clang!

The saucer she carried crashed to the floor, dropping the food everywhere.

She struggled and screamed as if being molested, “Help! Help! Someone, help me!”

Zachary frowned.

“What’s wrong, Lulu?” he asked, staring fixedly at her. “Did you forget about me?”

Why did she look so spooked, even turning pale?

“Let go of me!” There was only fear in the stewardess’s eyes.

Naturally, they caused such a commotion and a crowd soon arrived, along with the manager.

“What’s going on?” he demanded, and when he saw the mess on the deck, he quickly asked Zachary with an apologetic smile,

“Is there a problem, Mr. Slate? Did our staff mistreat you?”

Zachary came to his senses just then.

The stewardess might look like Lulu, but she did not seem to know him at all.

And the fear in her eyes was not feigned either…

What was going on here? Did she forget him?

“What’s her name?” Zachary asked the manager.

“Rainie Lang,” the manager replied. “She has been working here for two months. Do you happen to know her?”

“Yeah,” Zachary said.

However, the stewardess quickly hid behind the manager, complaining,” No, I don’t! He’s a scoundrel who molested me!”

The manager quickly rebuked her. “That’s Mr. Slate to you.”

As a matter of fact, Zachary had been to this cruise ship himself on multiple occasions for social calls, so the manager knew him.

On the other hand, this was the first time he met this stewardess.

He was certainly skeptical that two people could look so much alike-she had to be Lulu.

Perhaps she was rescued soon after his mother tried to kill her, but lost her memory and therefore could not recognize him?

The more Zachary thought about it, the likelier it seemed to him.

“You look like a friend of mine. I mistook you for her-I’m sorry,” Zachary tried to explain regardless, worried that the stewardess would see him as a common thug just then.

Naturally, Rainie did not buy it. “Don’t try to weasel your way out of this. I’m not buying it, pervert-”

“Rainie,” the manager said sternly, cutting her short. “Mr. Slate here is a good man and our frequent guest. Watch your manners, or you won’t keep your job with how unruly you are.”

Rainie had gone through great lengths to get this job, and she was naturally not about to lose it.

As such, she resigned herself to suffer in silence, only for the manager to tell her, “Now apologize.”

Rainie was naturally reluctant, but worried that she would lose her job, she bit her lip unhappily.

Zachary waved the manager away just then. “She doesn’t have to apologize.”

“Then…”

The manager was confused about what Zachary wanted just then.

Zachary waved him off again. “You can go about your business.”

“Of course. Just call for me there if you ever need me,” the manager said, respectfully taking Rainie below the deck.

Still, Zachary’s eyes were locked on Rainie-he swore to himself that he would investigate her thoroughly.

It would soon become clear if she really was Lulu.

“What are you doing, Zachary?”

Abigail was just leaving the washroom and she returned to find Zachary standing there distractedly.

Zachary turned toward the voice calling him and became at once impatient and excited when he saw that it was Abigail.

Striding toward her, he excitedly grabbed Abigail by the arm, blabbering,” Abigail, Lulu… I saw her. She’s alive. She’s alive!”

Abigail actually thought that he was hallucinating from missing Lulu too much and she simply played along, nodding. “I know. Let’s go back now.”

Zachary glared at her. “You don’t believe me?”

“Of course I do,” Abigail replied a little too quickly.

“You’re obviously not listening!” Zachary took a moment to calm down, before continuing seriously, “I really saw her! I wasn’t seeing things or hallucinating. She’s real!”

Abigail stared at him just then.He looked so serious it could well be real, so he asked, “Where did you see her?”

“Just now. She’s a stewardess named Rainie Lang.”

“Rainie… Lang?”

“She didn’t recognize me and she’s even changed her name. I’m guessing she’s amnesiac.”

Zachary spoke with such conviction that Abigail quickly said, “Take me to her.”

Zachary summoned the manager so that she would believe him. “Call up the stewardess just now.”

“Actually, I’ve already let her off early,” the manager replied. “I mean, she was bumbling around, even insulting you…”

“Do you have her address?” Zachary asked.

“No,” the manager replied.

“How about her number?”

The manager nodded, and Zachary said urgently, “Give it to me.”

Abigail stood nearby, watching quietly as Zachary got Rainie’s number, but stopped him just as he was about to call the number.

“Come with me.”

Pulling her to a quiet place, Abigail told him, “I know you’re impatient, but weren’t you saying that she doesn’t remember you?Don’t you think you’re going to scare her off if you called her out of the blue?”

Zachary thought about it and decided that Abigail was right.

In fact, Rainie was already repulsed by him, even treating him as a scoundrel.

It was fortunate that Abigail warned him or he would really have scared her away!

“Well, what should we do now?” Zachary appeared flustered-he was too excited to calm down and think.

“Investigate her quietly. Right now, we need to go back,” Abigail said, since she had been out for a while.

“But…”

“It’s pointless to wait here since she left work, so come again tomorrow and track her down-find out where she lives. It would be easy to determine if she is Lulu that way.”

Zachary actually thought that it was at once reasonable and possible!

“Alright, let’s do that.”

Still, as they returned to their table, Zachary suddenly felt no appetite even with all the gourmet selection in front of him.

All he could think about was Lulu’s face, and he was rejoicing that he could see her again-and perhaps make amends.

Life was worth living at that thought, improving his mood so much that he started eating again.

Abigail glanced at Zachary just then. She was curious about the stewardess called Rainie, but she did not have the time to pay it that much attention.

She decided to let Zachary investigate it himself, since she had yet to find her own missing child-she could not afford to divert her time and efforts.

The dinner ended on a happy note, with Mark and his research team bidding Abigail farewell.

Abigail wanted to speak further with Zachary, but he had already left.

“Who are you looking for?” Diarmuid asked.

Abigail stopped looking around right then and said, “No one.” Diarmuid was clearly doubtful. “Can’t even tell me?”

“Zachary saw this stewardess,” Abigail explained, “and he kept insisting that she looked exactly like Lulu. I thought that since I had no time to help, I wanted to ask him to update me after he gets to the bottom of this… But he left already.”

“You don’t have to care about everything, y’know,” Diarmuid said. “Look at how skinny you are-you should be staying home to get some proper rest.”

Abigail had certainly noticed that her health was failing.

She had not properly recovered from her postpartum period twice now.

And with all the mental stress weighing down on her, she would have started to crumble long ago if Mrs. Watson and Sheryl had not been making her nutritious food every day.

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