Chapter 47

Half-conscious, Briony caught the faint scent of something familiar.

She coughed, clutching her aching throat as she forced her eyes open.

The car was dim inside, streetlights flickering through the windows as they passed by. The shifting glow and shadow jolted her memory into place.

This was Stewart's car.

She sat up abruptly, scanning the front seat. Stewart glanced at her in the rearview mirror. "You're awake?"

Fragments of memory from before she blacked out drifted back. The last person she remembered seeing... was Stewart? But why would Stewart be there?

"How are you feeling now?" His deep voice broke through the silence, pulling her out of her thoughts.

She touched her neck pain flared beneath her fingers. She didn't need a mirror to know it was probably bruised.

The Kensingtons had finally managed to turn Mack into a second Malcolm. She felt no sorrow about it.

She'd grown up in the countryside with her grandfather. Other than her mother, who'd sneak away to see her whenever she could, the rest of the Kensington family had always treated her with cold indifference. If her grandfather hadn't died when she was eighteen, the Kensingtons never would've bothered bringing her back.

horizons," but everyone knew the real plan was to marry her off for some strategic alliance. As long as the man

how much their family's offering as a dowry? Five million! Dad says if we get the money, he'll buy me a new Mercedes. Just marry him

moment on, Briony stopped expecting

for her mother, she never would've come back

light, the car slowed to a stop. Briony stayed

at her. "Are you feeling

expression. "I'm fine." She hesitated,

out a low laugh. "What

Stewart had come looking for her. It wasn't the first time he'd stepped in to help. But

want their divorce paperwork complicated by her untimely death. If she died before they signed the papers,

"Whatever your reasons,

mouth twitched in the faintest of smiles. The light turned green; he faced forward and pressed

road. Briony glanced outside,

"The hospital," he replied.

If she went to the

blurted out, panic rising in her voice. "I

slow down. "It's better to get you

own body," Briony shot

her in the mirror. "You seem pretty scared

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