Aggressive Wife novel (Madeline and Noah)

Chapter 52

The golden dagger flew past Bruno, almost nicking his ear in the process. When he realized what had happened, he was so terrified he almost wet himself!

The dagger had a folded strip of paper attached to it. Bruno waited for a moment to be sure that no more weapons would come flying at him before he slowly detached the strip of paper and unfolded it.

Written in a small, elegant script was a message.

"Daddy dearest, why do you and Mom insist on mistreating my son? He's your grandchild after all, and he's just a little boy still. How can you treat him like that? I can't understand it at all, so I have no choice but to return and sort this matter out with the two of you."

When Bruno read this, his brow knitted tightly together. This had to be a malicious prank. However, when he saw that the signature was Madeline's, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat!

Madeline? How could this be? She had been dead for ages; how could she possibly come back from the grave after so many years?

The thought of it made Bruno's scalp prickled, and he felt an icy hand clutch at his heart.

"Kingsley! Kingsley!"

"I'm here, Mr. Bruno sir, what's the matter?" Kingsley, the Grant family's butler, came hurrying over. He noticed that his master's face was as white as a sheet as if something had frightened him badly and hastily moved to support him.

"It's Madeline! She's come back!"

"Sir, do you mean Ms. Madeline? She died five years ago, though, didn't she?" Kingsley was puzzled and assumed that Bruno had become confused in a moment of senility. Patiently, he corrected his master, attempting to help him upstairs so he could lie down and rest.

At this moment, something shattered the wall of the villa. Glass and tiles went flying everywhere.

Bruno scarcely had time to take in what was happening before the grappling hook that had been hurled through the wall tightened. In an instant, the entire wall was ripped out of the Grant residence.

Bruno could only stare in stunned disbelief.

The house was being demolished!

standing in the living room, but now that one wall of the house was gone, they were both

to try and discover the perpetrator of this outrage, but his path was

licked hungrily at the parquet

his legs turned to jelly. "Run for it, Kingsley! Someone's trying to kill

out when the entire villa collapsed

the ground. Despair engulfed him in a massive wave. He had lost everything! His

drive him into his grave? Could it be that Madeline had actually

mind was spinning. Gradually, however, despair and hopelessness overcame

very moment, Madeline was alive and well, sitting atop the

the blazing inferno, she hopped down and

her feel much better, even though she had let Bruno off this time. The

Ms. Madeline!

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VIP cardholders' lounge. Dressed in a pastel pink evening gown, she looked thoroughly

She was now seated in a spot that he was sure to pass on his way to the private rooms, hoping that she might find an opportunity to waylay

this. If Bruno had not behaved like a pig-headed fool and kidnapped Colton, she would not have needed to take such a risk and put her

grandfather who kidnapped his own grandchild would certainly not be

resulted in the entire Grant family being blacklisted

closer to Noah! She had no choice but to find another way around the situation. As long as she became

he was nowhere in sight. Quite a number of inebriated individuals approached her to strike up a conversation, however, making her feel

she grew tired of them. She knew better than anyone why these men were trying to approach her. They were all unattractive and as ugly as toads,

the corner of the lounge before Noah's arrival, trying her best to keep

she was wearing a black mask and a hat to hide her face, someone still recognized her eventually. "Ooh look, isn't that Imperia's very own charitable princess over there? Who would

chubby man with a large head, large ears, and an equally large rotund stomach. He practically oozed sleaze

at him. Noah would be arriving