Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 94

Briony ignored her and focused on her own meal, barely glancing up.

That New Year's Eve dinner was shrouded in an uneasy, suffocating silence.

Stella ate in tears, each bite swallowed with more saltwater than food.

Briony, on the other hand, managed to eat quite a bit.

But as she cleared the table, she suddenly clamped a hand over her mouth and bolted for the bathroom, where she threw up everything she'd eaten.

Stella panicked, but Briony just offered a faint smile and murmured that she was simply tired.

It was barely nine o'clock-hours still to go before midnight.

Stella gently supported Briony, helping her to bed.

In the past three days, Briony had barely slept a wink.

And if Briony was awake, Stella couldn't rest either.

Given the state Briony was in, Stella refused to leave her side. She'd called their parents earlier to explain, and they understood, reminding her to take good care of Briony.

Once Briony lay down, exhaustion overtook her and she drifted off almost instantly.

and before she knew it, she too had fallen

was impossible to say how long had passed when Briony,

in sweat, tears streaking her face, her chest

Boom! Boom! Boom-

sky exploded in a riot of fireworks,

was fast asleep. Carefully, Briony slipped out from under the covers and

New Year's. She needed to

...

was alive with noise and celebration. Families and friends flocked together in joyful crowds

slippers, Briony wove unsteadily through the revelers toward the water's

river-a Northborough tradition to

out at the glowing lanterns until her vision blurred with

and with it, the dam she'd held for three days finally broke; tears

Why aren't you coming home...

cheers filled the night, but Briony gripped

her mother again

and desperate, was swallowed by the crowd-no one

how she called, there would

her. Her mother was

she no

fresh wishes into

filled with peace and happiness for the whole