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.

honest with you from the beginning, but

echoed in Briony's

Stewart, she was just an

living together, raising a child side by side- even if there was no romantic love between them-they at least trusted each other like

had no idea that, all along, the man she shared her life with had only ever kept her at

If he'd only told her the truth from the

Stewart and I are both grateful for everything you've

"You've raised Irwin so well. As his

lips pressed tightly together and face eerily calm, though her arm around Irwin

shouted at Rosita, his small face twisted in anger. "You're a bad woman!

stunned, her hand flying to her mouth as tears welled up in her eyes. The hurt and restraint in

at once. She stood and snapped at Briony, "Is this how you raise a child? Where's his

argue with Fiona. Still, for Irwin's sake, she managed, "He's just a child. You have to give him time to

You think I don't see what you're up to?" Fiona sneered. "Briony, we're

"Galen!"

butler hurried over.

won't have the Wentworth family's blood manipulated by

stepped forward and pulled Irwin from Briony's