Cold husband burning regret

Regret Novel 205

Charlotte’s knuckles whitened as she loosened her grip on the knife, stumbling backward two steps.

She had just tried to kill them.

Had she completely lost her mind?

Tricia fumbled for her phone and started to dial 911, but Evander snatched it from her before the call could connect. His voice was faint, and blood slipped between his fingers as he pressed them to his wound. “Don’t call the police.”

“Evander, she tried to kill you!” Tricia’s voice trembled.

Evander’s face was ghostly pale, his jaw clenched with pain and defiance. “I said don’t!”

Tricia hurried to stop the bleeding, grabbing towels and calling a private ambulance instead.

Charlotte stood frozen, not moving an inch or speaking a single word–not even an apology.

When the ambulance arrived, paramedics loaded Evander onto a stretcher. Even as he drifted toward unconsciousness from blood loss, he kept insisting to the medics that his wife had only hurt him by accident and begged them not to involve the police.

Tricia, hovering at Evander’s side, looked stricken.

As soon as Miranda Sutherland heard her son had been stabbed and was being treated at their family’s hospital, she rushed straight there.

Outside the ER, Miranda looked around for Charlotte, but only found Tricia pacing anxiously.

you doing here? Where’s his

kill Evander!” Tricia burst out, her face pale and her voice

narrowed with disbelief. “Don’t be ridiculous. What

you can ask Charlotte yourself!” Tricia snapped

Tricia’s dramatics, the certainty in her tone was unnerving. Could it really have been Charlotte

she had the motive–this needs to be reported. Domestic violence is still assault, and this was

don’t know if he’ll make it. If we call the police, maybe they can

eagerness to see Charlotte behind bars was palpable. With Evander out of commission, she’d have the perfect opportunity to act against Charlotte. The Howard family wouldn’t stop

was savoring the thought,

landed across

head snapped to the side. She whirled around, ready to lash out, but when she

up to. Evander said not to call the police–why are you so eager to go against him? Afraid that

in place. “Grandma Rosemary, you’ve misunderstood. That’s

meant at all.”

about Charlotte’s mother’s fall. You were there. Don’t pretend you had nothing to do with it. Can you honestly say you weren’t involved,

her hand gripping a gold–tipped cane, Rosemary regarded her with

contempt.

times over. This kind of scheming could only fool someone as naive as

cheek, avoiding Rosemary’s stare, her

looking away with a dismissive wave. “Charlotte is the Howard family’s daughter–in–law. If you keep making trouble as an outsider, don’t blame me for