Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 4

Briony drew a deep breath, doing her best to keep her composure.

She turned to Rosita. "Ms. Lockwood, are you really Irwin's biological mother?"-

Rosita met Briony's gaze, her smile gentle and warm. "Five years ago, because of work and a company contract, I had no choice but to keep my relationship with Irwin a secret."

Briony's breath caught. "Irwin's father..."

"Irwin is Stewart's and my child," Rosita replied softly.

Her words, gentle as they sounded, plunged into Briony's heart like a dagger.

Briony froze, a suffocating pain tightening her chest and draining all color from her face.

So, all this time-the child she had raised and loved as her own for five years— was actually Stewart and Rosita's son.

Which meant Stewart had been deceiving her from the very beginning.

He hadn't cheated after their wedding; rather, he'd been playing her for a fool right from the start.

long. I actually advised Stewart to be honest with you from the beginning, but he thought it would be

in Briony's mind like

Stewart, she was just an

side- even if there was no

idea that, all along, the man she shared her life with had only ever kept her

make sense of it. Why would Stewart lie to her? If he'd only told her the truth from the

five years have been hard on you. Stewart

so

tightly together and face eerily calm, though her arm

You're lying! I only have one mother-and I want my real mom!" Irwin shouted at Rosita, his small face twisted in anger. "You're a bad woman! You have no

was stunned, her hand flying to her mouth as tears welled up in

Briony, "Is this how you raise a

Still, for Irwin's sake, she

don't see what you're up to?" Fiona sneered. "Briony, we're both women. Don't think

"Galen!"

hurried over.

the boy. I won't have the Wentworth family's blood manipulated

glare, he stepped forward and pulled Irwin from