My Husband Wants Me Dead novel (Esther and Bradley)

Chapter 551

Esther was so frightened her face turned pale, her legs weakened, and her hands trembled. The phone slipped from her grasp

with a loud clank.

Felix looked up from his book and asked concernedly, “Mommy, what’s wrong?”

Esther tried to maintain her composure and answered, “It’s nothing.”

She sat down on the edge of the hospital bed, clutching the bed frame for support. With trembling fingers, she replied to the message on her phone.

[Who are you?]

She sent the message but received no response. Without thinking, she deleted the gruesome image of the bloody hand and added the sender’s number to her block list.

Her heart was still racing from fear, and calming down took a long time.

“Mommy, would you like some fruit?” Felix asked.

there like a statue, Felix picked a honey tangerine from

Felix’s hair and replied softly, “Yes, I’d

I’ll peel it

carefully peeled the skin for Esther. As the fragrance of the tangerine filled the room, Esther’s panicked heart gradually settled. She watched Felix as

you

a small tangerine carpel to Esther. Its sweet

“Is it sweet?”

in the world because you peeled it for me.”

face lit up with excitement. Encouraged, he fed another segment

other, creating

watched Esther and Felix from the door

to

“Uncle Oliver.”

“Granduncle Oliver.”

bag of roasted sweet potatoes to Felix. “Enjoy your sweet potatoes. Uncle Oliver

looked at Esther, then at Oliver, before

Bluetooth earbuds and started listening