Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 5

This child had always been frail-born with asthma, no less-and the one thing he couldn't handle was getting worked up from crying.

After all, she'd raised him single-handedly since he was a baby. No matter what, Briony just couldn't bring herself to abandon him.

"Irwin, sweetheart, I'm not leaving you, okay? Please, don't cry."

All Briony wanted was to calm Irwin down first.

But Fiona, standing nearby, heard this and twisted it to her own ends.

"Briony, do you have any shame? Irwin isn't even your own child! How dare you say something like that?"

Fiona, who always carried herself with the air of a high-society matriarch, didn't bother to hide her contempt for Briony. Her voice was sharp, dripping with venom.

"No wonder Irwin's never warmed up to me all these years. He's devoted to you, calls you 'Mom,' and now I see why. You've been brainwashing him behind my back, haven't you?"

The accusation was outrageous. Briony's expression hardened, despite her concern for the child.

"Mrs. Wentworth, when Stewart and I married, I didn't ask for your blessing. If you don't accept me as your daughter-in-law, fine-I won't force it. But do you really think, in front of a five-year-old, you're being a good example? So tell me: am I the disrespectful one, or are you just abusing your age and status?"

by Briony's open defiance, her face flushing

that," Briony replied, meeting Fiona's glare, calm and unyielding. "Whether Stewart and I divorce

"Mom, don't leave me! I don't like Grandma's house! And I hate that bad woman! I just want

was already hoarse from

for five years and had never

to listen to reason right now. Let me take

Briony took Irwin's hand and

up, his tiny feet moving as fast as they could, terrified

after them—Rosita, rushing out in

Rosita caught

wrong, but I had my reasons

to wrench his arm free,

arm hurt from the

She's trying to

let go, her feelings

realized she couldn't pull Irwin away, she shifted her desperate gaze to

down Rosita's beautiful face, making her

and nearly died giving birth to. I know you've raised