Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 424

He was speaking when, all of a sudden, he coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of blood.

A moment later, the man could hold himself up no longer. His tall frame collapsed,

knees slamming hard against the unforgiving deck.

He coughed again, more blood spilling from his lips.

Briony hadn't hesitated-her aim had been both ruthless and precise.

It must have hit his spleen.

Bianca heard the commotion and came running. When she saw Stewart kneeling on the deck, a knife still lodged in his side and blood on his lips, she gasped in horror and called frantically for the doctor.

Their private physician rushed over.

Stewart, clinging to consciousness by a thread, managed to command, "Turn the boat around. Now. And... get my wife back to her cabin-"

With those words, his eyes fluttered shut. He passed out cold.

"Sir!"

Briony watched as Stewart was carried away toward the cabins.

Conditions on the yacht were far from ideal. The doctor could do little more than stop the bleeding.

Bianca pressed him for answers.

"It looks like his spleen's been injured," the doctor admitted, his voice strained. "I can't risk removing the knife out here. We need to get him to a hospital as soon as possible."

heard this, she hurried back out

howling, and fat raindrops pelted

Briony's arm. "Ma'am, he's unconscious. Please, you need to come inside! The waves are getting worse out here. It's dangerous to stay on

refused to let go of

that if she went back inside,

from a spleen injury. The captain's already turning

face, Bianca raised her voice

out cold, ma'am. Right now, you have more say on this yacht than anyone else.

Briony blinked, startled.

was growing fiercer by the

her face

saw Little Nina's sweet,

if she woke from a nightmare. "I can't...

hittle Nina's still waiting

at home!"

Briony's eyes. Relieved, Bianca quickly

return

her to her

me

hot shower and change

Bianca suggested gently.

down at herself. Her wedding gown was drenched, streaked with

looked just like her

with blood and

bathroom, Bianca helped Briony out of the heavy, sopping gown and

it out.