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.

before she knew it, she too

had passed when Briony, half-dreaming, heard someone calling her

tears streaking her face, her

Boom! Boom! Boom-

a riot of fireworks, bursting in brilliant color. The new year had

fast asleep. Carefully, Briony slipped out from under the

She needed to

...

river, the city was alive with noise and celebration. Families

pale dress and slippers, Briony wove

of floating lanterns drifted across the river-a Northborough tradition to welcome the new year

gazed out at the glowing lanterns until

word slipped out, and with it, the dam she'd held for three

New Year's. Why aren't

and cheers filled the night, but Briony gripped the

mother

and desperate, was swallowed by the

how she called, there would never be

her. Her mother

no longer had a

shouted fresh

with peace and happiness for