Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 14

At the start of the year, Briony bought a new place right next to her studio in the Dolphin Cove complex.

It was a spacious apartment-about fifteen hundred square feet, three bedrooms in all. She took one room for herself, gave another to her mother, and converted the smallest into a cozy study.

The apartment came fully finished, but Briony had hired an interior designer to redo the decor. The renovation wrapped up three months ago, so she could move in with nothing more than her suitcase.

After dropping off her luggage at the new apartment, Briony headed straight back to her studio.

She worked late into the night, pushing herself until sheer exhaustion finally forced her to the break room.

After washing up, she collapsed onto the narrow bed and drifted into a deep sleep.

But that night, her rest was anything but peaceful. She tossed and turned through

a jumble of dreams, waking up in the morning with no memory of any of them- just a dull ache behind her eyes.

Rubbing her temples, Briony shuffled into the bathroom to get ready for the day. When she came out, her phone was buzzing on the nightstand.

It was Stewart calling.

She ignored it.

She could guess it was about Irwin.

She'd already made up her mind to get a divorce-it was best to make a clean break.

time, Briony was

her phone into her purse, Briony set off

the OB-GYN department, inside Dr. Stella's private

your last period and the ultrasound, you're at five weeks and four days,"

on the grainy black-and-white image, her

a tiny shadow on the printout, "-it looks like

up. "Are

at around seven weeks, we can detect two heartbeats, then we'll know for sure it's twins. And with two sacs, they're

thin, pale line as

see Briony's

all, these were her own children-possibly twins. Anyone would find it hard

that, these were Stewart's children,

knew all about Briony's feelings

doubted there was anyone else in the world like Briony who would spend five long years loving a man, quietly, faithfully, even knowing that he might ask for a divorce

marriage, Briony had loved humbly but with open

suspected he had never truly been invested, not even from the

it," Briony said after a long pause, lifting her gaze to meet Stella's. "I'll let you

tears, confusion written all over

for her. "As long as you decide before twelve

the report into her bag. "Please don't tell anyone

"I won't."

work,

department, Briony took the