Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 550

After James tucked little Nina into bed, he turned around and saw Briony carrying little Mario in her arms. "What happened?" he asked quietly.

"I'm going to lie down with the kids for a while." Briony's voice was soft, her face giving nothing away.

James recognized it for what it was a way to avoid everything.

In the end, he said nothing more. He stepped out of the room, gently pulling the door closed behind him.

Briony settled little Mario onto the bed, then lay down beside her two children. "Mom's here. Let's rest together, okay?"

Little Mario closed his eyes, drifting off almost instantly.

Briony watched her children's peaceful faces, then let her own eyes slip shut.

Outside, the wind and rain continued unabated.

Inside, the room was silent, broken only by the steady, even breathing of the children.

With her eyes closed, Briony couldn't help but replay the man's last words in her mind-

[Bryn, do you still resent me?]

Did she?

She hadn't answered him.

Because, truthfully, she didn't know the answer herself.

...

When Briony woke again, the rain had eased and the sky had brightened a little.

glanced at the clock.

children woke up in much better spirits

moods changed as

one child's hand in each of

over. "Awake at last! I went up around lunchtime, but you three were so sound asleep I didn't have the heart

had slept

weather," Briony replied. "I lay down with them and

want to eat? I'll whip

"Just some noodles, please."

"You got it!"

little Mario were already

still groggy

head

front

at the

nowhere and had

her phone was still in her purse,

out the phone, only

calls, she wasn't even

her phone

name on the screen, hesitated, and let it ring

called again. And again. Briony

battery died and

phone

making the noodles. Briony

hands and

and well-behaved, little Nina and little Mario

ts at the table,