Chasing His Runaway Wife by Jamie Stones

Chapter 51

Tabitha looked at the bare white ceiling above her and tried her hardest to recall what had happened before she passed out. At some point, she was convinced that she had merely imagined Malcolm’s presence around her.

Suddenly, she heard a voice saying. “You’re awake.”

Tabitha’s heart skipped a beat. She turned around and saw Chadwick’s clean and gentle face. “How are you feeling? Are you hurting anywhere?” he asked.

Ah, so it’s not Malcolm after all. As the realization dawned upon Tabitha, a self–deprecating smile curled on her lips.

She knew Malcolm did not care for her, and she should have known better than to hope otherwise.

When Chadwick saw the despondent look in Tabitha’s eyes, he caressed her hair gently and said, “I was on the phone with Colette just now, and she told me that you’ve been going around investigating that incident from years ago.”

Chadwick’s words brought Tabitha back to reality.

She was suddenly reminded of her parents‘ unjust deaths and her desire to avenge them. She did not have time to lie here and mope over Malcolm’s absence.

Chadwick noticed how her gaze had gone from unfocused to determined and pointed out sympathetically, Tabby, we know you’ve been trying to find witnesses, but you can’t rush these things. Besides, Trevor and Colette are doing everything they can to help you, too. You have to take care of yourself, for the sake of your baby.”

Tears pricked Tabitha’s eyes when she heard this. She unclenched her fists. and her hand fluttered to her lower abdomen. It was as if she had suddenly

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regained her strength.

She found herself thinking, ‘I still want you, baby, even if that man doesn’t.

According to the doctor’s orders, Tabitha was to remain at the hospital for further observation.

to the baby, either,

followed the doctor’s instructions. She stayed in bed

frequently and only told him to call her

of her baby that it was

watch.

Chadwick’s gaze darkened as his thoughts trailed off.

long before Alaric showed up at the hospital to visit Tabitha

hospital room with Tabitha, he did not grow

to each other, Alaric said graciously, “Thank you for taking care of Tabby.”

background. He knew Chadwick and Tabitha were only close friends, and there

nodded with a smile. “Don’t mention it.

friends.”

trip, but he could not stop thinking about what

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his mind. Why was Chadwick

how glum Malcolm was and could not help asking. “Mr. Sinclair, is there something

many questions he had, he figurest he might as

in mind, Malcolm said to Saul. “Have someone look into the places Tabitha went

Why does Mr. Sinclair want to know where Mrs. Sinclair had been all of a sudden?”

agreed

to know who she was in contact with, and if she spent more

Saul replied

Saul pulled up outside a

much colder

urbanized. Building a new road here was, indeed, a quick way to develop the city as a

got out of the car. He looked tall and well–built in his long. smoky–gray windbreaker. When

Malcolm in a place like Ackleton. He was also more handsome than any male celebrity, and the hotel staff at the front desk could not

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jaws open.

walked in and

to their rooms.

bed. He was suddenly seized by the image of Tabitha lying on the hospital