Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 411

Briony's scalp prickled as the words hit her.

There was something chillingly deranged about Stewart's calm. It was the kind of composure that made your skin crawl, as if madness lurked just beneath the

surface.

He'd kidnapped her today-who was to say he wouldn't do the same to their daughter one day?

She forced herself not to let her mind go there.

"Stewart, no matter how busy I was on business trips, I always called Little Nina every night before bed-she'd say goodnight to me, every single night. I haven't seen her face in over twenty-four hours now. She's just a little girl, she won't understand."

"That's nothing you need to worry about," Stewart replied, utterly unruffled. "I told the nanny you're somewhere remote, bad reception, can't make video calls."

Briony pressed her lips together.

Of course. If Stewart had gone so far as to kidnap her, he'd make sure to keep up appearances everywhere else.

"Please, just let me call her. She's four, Stewart. If she goes too long without talking to me, she'll get scared."

"That depends on you." Stewart's gaze pinned her. "Bryn, if you cooperate, I won't keep you here forever. Just a week. I just want you to stay with me for one week."

A week?

in Stewart's presence felt like

there's nothing left between us. This is pointless," Briony pleaded, staring him

in a cold smile. "A week, Bryn. Not a day

can't stand being here one day,

I need you

care!" Briony snapped, eyes blazing. "I just want to go home to my

himself. "I've signed the divorce papers, Bryn.

thinking, over and over, how did we

bitter, icy laugh.

met her gaze, expression pained.

shook with anger and disbelief. "You really think kidnapping me will help you figure it out? You should be

helpless smile.

Briony froze.

years together-weren't they real? Weren't they

voice was

glared at him, brows

wanted to-because you loved me. You treated Irwin as your own, all because of that

Briony refused to answer.

loved

apart, when she had no one left. When her mother went to prison, when both the Kensington and Hudson families abandoned her, Stewart gave her a place to belong-even if that home was built on