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.

the

woke up in much better spirits after their

about kids-their moods changed as quickly as the

of hers, Briony led

"Awake at last! I went up around lunchtime, but you three

slept a

rainy weather," Briony replied. "I lay down with

you want to eat? I'll whip something

"Just some noodles, please."

"You got it!"

little Mario were already off, happily playing

groggy from

head pounding

front

up at

had been falling for hours, showing no

remembered her phone was still in her purse, which she'd

and fished out the phone, only to see multiple missed calls -Cedric Clarke, Carl,

many missed calls, she wasn't even sure who to call back

phone vibrated

at his name on the screen, hesitated, and let it ring

called again. And again. Briony

died and the

slipped the dead phone back into her

while later, Marlene finished making the

hands and

well-behaved, little Nina and little

ts at the table,