Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 46

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.

of high school, to parade around at stuffy society galas. They called it “broadening her horizons," but everyone knew the real plan

refused. Nineteen-year-old Mack sneered, "Do you know how much their family's offering as a dowry? Five

Briony stopped

never would've come

car slowed to

back at her. "Are you feeling that

eyes in the dim light, unable to read his expression. "I'm fine." She hesitated, then asked, "What were you

out a low

It wasn't the first time he'd stepped in to help. But she wouldn't let herself read too much

they signed the papers, he'd be a widower instead of a divorcee-a little too ominous for someone

her tone grave. "Whatever your reasons, the

the faintest of smiles. The light turned green; he faced

Briony glanced outside, eyebrows knitting. "Where are you

"The hospital," he replied.

caught. If she went to the hospital and they discovered

Briony blurted out, panic rising in her voice. "I don't

down. "It's better to get

know my own body," Briony shot

mirror. "You seem

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