Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 409

Briony blinked open her eyes, groggy and disoriented.

She found herself staring up at a room she knew all too well.

Wait-this was... the master bedroom at Southcreek Manor?

Her muddled mind snapped awake in an instant.

She bolted upright, only to feel a strange, heavy resistance in her body.

Glancing down, Briony froze in shock-she was wearing a wedding dress.

Her eyes widened, panic flaring in her chest.

No-this couldn't be. Wasn't this the very dress she'd burned in Ghana four years ago?

What the hell was going on?!

She scanned the room, desperate for answers.

No doubt about it-this was Southcreek Manor's master bedroom.

How on earth had she ended up here?

A sharp pain pulsed at her temples. She pressed her fingers to her head, trying to steady herself.

Fragments of memory before she'd blacked out started to resurface.

Had... had Stewart kidnapped her?

Her breath caught in her throat.

lost his

day he'd mailed her the divorce papers, the next he'd abducted

boiling inside her, Briony threw back the covers and slid off

echoed

froze, heart pounding as she slowly lowered her

steel chain

disbelief, she lifted the hem of her dress and found the chain cuffed to

chain with her eyes, she saw the other

leaving her hands trembling

had lost

Click.

The door opened.

head snapped toward

and composed,

tray-on it, a few small dishes and a bowl

sharp features remained calm,

faint, indifferent smile. "Good. You're up. Just in

to the one he'd worn in Ghana, four years

This was insane.

even realize what you're doing?" she spat, her anger barely contained. "This

that's not a very fair thing to

the small table beside the sofa at the foot of the

He stepped closer, reaching out as if to touch her

chain rattling

a cruel reminder of

"Stewart, you never cease to surprise

eyes fixed on her, unblinking. "You

me that!" Briony snapped, her patience gone. "You don't have

lips twisted in

humorless, almost mocking smile.