Chasing His Runaway Wife by Jamie Stones

Chapter 7

The doctors and nurses quickly arrived and helped Alaric out. Meanwhile, Malcolm hurriedly followed the team away without sparing a glance at Tabitha.

Tabitha’s lips quivered and her fingers trembled violently.

Malcolm was the one who pulled her out of her abyss of despair with his warm hands.

She thought he was to be the salvation of her life. Yet, things had come to

this.

Malcolm left in such a hurry that he completely disregarded Naomi.

Naomi sneaked a few glances at Tabitha. Seeing that the latter had not paid much attention to her presence, she quietly moved closer to the door.

“Naomi,” Tabitha suddenly called out, her eyes cold. “It’s been eight years. Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Tabitha’s voice seemed so faint that it could disappear with the breeze, yet Naomi felt a chill go down her spine when she heard it.

Naomi’s expression stiffened. She cautiously looked at the closed door and forced out a few tears.

“Ms. Jarvis, I know how sad you are to lose your parents. But it was an accident, and I was also a victim. I didn’t want it to happen,” she sobbed quietly with an innocent look on her face, implying that Tabitha should not have blamed her or gotten upset.

“An accident?” Tabitha repeated the phrase, enunciating both words carefully. She chuckled before taking a deep breath. The anger and pain she felt were showing despite her effort to mask it with her calm voice.

Back then, Naomi was pestered by hooligans outside a bar and asked Tabitha’s parents, Raphael and Meghan for help. In the midst of the chaos, Raphael was stabbed, but Naomi took advantage of the situation and ran

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dad had gotten seriously injured trying to save you, and my mom begged you to call 911. Yet, you ran away, causing my mom

to slash at Naomi. Naomi could not bear such a fierce presence. She dared not make

on time. It was all because of your ungratefulness and apathy that my dad died from excessive

paler, and the guilt flickering in her eyes

herself. “I didn’t want to run away at that moment. Those hooligans had taken my phone away, and I ran to get help. Yet, it was

her voice and slapped Naomi

admitted that they didn’t touch you at all, let alone take your phone!” Tabitha screamed. “You

after seeing the amount of blood coming out of Raphael’s body. Naomi

911, Raphael and Meghan would not have

a person’s behavior endangered others and the person did nothing to help those in danger,

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intentional homicide and had to bear

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was turned to the side due to the slap. Her face contorted

the need to pretend since the

at Tabitha

everything,” Naomi said, her tone cold. The delicateness and innocence from earlier were all gone in

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to me? I advise you not to waste your time.

who kept holding on to the issue that I had to leave. And now you’re stuck between Malcolm and me!

as if she were the one who had suffered

boiled in

them being dead before they even turned 40. However, instead of showing any

could not help but scoff at how ridiculous the world had