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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Yet, you ran away, causing my mom to have a heart attack there and then,” Tabitha

Naomi. Naomi could not bear such a

sent to the hospital on time. It was all because of your ungratefulness and apathy that my dad died from excessive blood

paler, and the guilt flickering in her eyes became increasingly

that moment. Those hooligans had taken my phone away, and

enough!” Tabitha suddenly raised her voice and

at all, let alone take your phone!” Tabitha screamed.

fled the scene after seeing the amount of blood coming out of Raphael’s body. Naomi was no longer in danger, and yet she still

then, if she had just called 911, Raphael and Meghan

person did nothing to help those in danger, that person

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of intentional homicide and had to

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the side due to the slap. Her face contorted

was no longer the need to

her cheek, she stared at Tabitha

know everything,” Naomi said, her tone cold. The

remained silent. Her

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to me? I advise you

then looked at Tabitha with unconcealed hatred. “Besides, I’ve already apologized back then. You’re the one who kept holding on to the issue that I had to leave. And now you’re stuck between Malcolm and me! You’re just as annoying as your

if she were the one

blood boiled

lives, resulting in them being dead before they even turned 40. However, instead of showing any gratitude or remorse, Naomi shamelessly

scoff at how ridiculous the world had