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.

did not want anything happening to the baby, either, so she

in bed when she

him to call her if there was any important development in their

sake of her baby that it was

watch.

darkened as his thoughts trailed off.

before Alaric showed up at the hospital to visit Tabitha as

man in the hospital room with Tabitha, he

Alaric said graciously, “Thank

look into Chadwick’s background. He knew Chadwick and Tabitha were

mention it. Tabby and I are

friends.”

leave on his business trip, but he could not stop thinking about what Chadwick said about Tabitha’s

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his mind. Why was Chadwick so sure that

asking. “Mr. Sinclair, is there something you have yet to take care

questions he had, he figurest he might as well find the answers on

said to Saul. “Have someone look into the places Tabitha

taken aback by Malcolm’s instruction. Why does Mr. Sinclair want to know where Mrs. Sinclair had been all of a sudden?”

and agreed to do as he was

want to know who she was in contact with, and if she spent more than half an hour in any location, I want to know

Saul replied dutifully.

Saul pulled up outside a hotel

Ackleton was much colder than it was in Nosa.

from being considered urbanized. Building a new road here was,

looked tall and well–built in his long. smoky–gray windbreaker.

someone as imposing and elegant as Malcolm in a place like Ackleton. He was also more handsome than any male celebrity, and the hotel staff at the front desk

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jaws open.

already booked hotel rooms in advance. After they walked in and stated their business

to their rooms.

seized by the