Chapter 383

Briony tossed the card straight into the trash.

"If anyone sends flowers again, just have them returned on the spot."

"But if the order's already accepted, the delivery guy can't just take them back, can he?"

"Then tell them if they try again, I'll file a complaint. Make it clear."

Hannah nodded briskly. "Got it!"

Briony turned and headed toward her office.

She hadn't even reached the door when a woman's furious voice erupted outside

"Briony, get out here right now!"

Briony froze mid-step and turned back.

Fiona, ignoring Hannah's attempts to hold her back, stormed in, shouting and shoving Hannah aside as she made a beeline for Briony.

"Ma'am, please, calm down..." Hannah tried to catch up and restrain Fiona.

Briony didn't want to engage. She pivoted toward her office again.

But before she could get away, Fiona shoved past Hannah and grabbed Briony's arm in a vice-like grip.

react before Fiona's palm struck her

slap echoed through the hall, sharp and

rooted to

"Briony!"

yanking her arm free

stumbled backward, barely catching her

ringing filled Briony's ears, and her cheek burned

her expression dark and foreboding. "Fiona, you'd better have a good explanation

eyed Briony up and

and if anything, Briony looked even more striking than before. Clearly, time hadn't

like losing your son

chest, but her face

are?" Fiona jabbed a finger at Briony's face, her voice shri with rage. "You have the nerve to tell me how to talk? Let me make this clear, Briony-I'm here today as Mrs. Wentworth, as drwin's grandmother,

Irwin.

Realization dawned on Briony.

bitter expression, lips pressed in a

tone icy. "So what is

say?" Fiona snapped. "Did you tell Stewart to

what this is

humorless laugh. "I gave Stewart two choices. One: divorce me, and I'll leave the Wentworths with my daughter and never took back. Or two: send Irwin away, because as long as I stay with my daughter, there's

out of

planted her hands on her hips, her eyes glinting with rage. "Briony, if you had a son, maybe I could understand you fighting for your place. But you only have a daughter, and you dare make

a curse! You took our family's grandson and you still have the nerve to stir up trouble for

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