Chasing His Runaway Wife by Jamie Stones

Chapter 53

Riley’s expression shifted slightly, and his

, and his eyes flickered.

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Malcolm narrowed his eyes and warned in a hostile voice, “This concerns my wife. You better be honest.”

Riley wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and replied in a trembling voice, “To answer your question, Mrs. Sinclair did indeed visit our hotel over two months ago, and I personally attended to her.”

“Mrs. Sinclair came to Quilton for a visit. She felt unwell, so she rested at the hotel. She asked about your room number and I provided it directly to her,” Riley continued.

Hearing Riley’s reply, Malcolm vaguely pieced something together but didn’t know what he was expecting. His voice carried a hint of urgency as he asked, “When did she check in?”

“On October 10th,” Riley replied.

A faint, imperceptible disappointment surged within Malcolm.

“The timeline did not match!‘ he exclaimed in his heart.

He was with Naomi on October 12th.

His voice had turned utterly cold when he spoke again, “What happened later?”

Riley started sweating profusely as he said, “There was a minor power issue that night and the electricity went off for a while, so the room card malfunctioned. I wanted to check on Mrs. Sinclair and see if she needed emergency service, but it seemed there was a drunken man in her room… I’m afraid of stirring up trouble, so I dared not to ask any question and left as if I hadn’t seen anything…”

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understood Riley’s implication. The latter thought that he had caught Tabitha in an affair.

that?” Malcomn asked

Sinclair checked out the next day, she asked me about when you returned the previous night and when

a drunken intruder had entered Tabitha’s

with the power supply issue, it was understandable that she would mistake him for someone

crashed down, leaving Malcolm’s mind momentarily blank.

it really be like that?‘ he

had countless thoughts about the child in Tabitha’s belly, but he didn’t expect

intensely. “I want

night, the surveillance only resumed the next afternoon, so there’s no recording of that period. I feared losing my job due to negligence and thus concealed the truth from Mrs. Sinclair…”

sank straight down. In prolonged silence, an indescribable mix of emotions flooded his mind,

he was still sitting on the couch

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couldn’t come back to

accusatory eyes, and the gradual shift to disappointment and

held a firm belief that the child was theirs. After he had denied the child’s identity, he now

his phone and inadvertently

voice came

devoid of any emotions, Malcolm’s throat tightened

he could easily hurt and mock her without any psychological obstacles.

suddenly didn’t know how to talk to her.