Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 658

Briony kept her head bowed, afraid he might notice something was wrong.

She nodded quietly and lifted another spoonful of soup to her lips.

Stewart stood nearby, watching her. It wasn't until her third bite that he finally noticed something was off.

He quickly crouched down beside her, just in time to see a tear slip from her eye.

The tear landed in the pale soup.

A sharp ache pulsed in Stewart's chest. "Bryn?"

Briony reached up to wipe her eyes. "I'm fine, really..."

Stewart gently took the bowl from her hands and set it on the table.

"Bryn, I'm sorry. I know I put you through so much." He knelt on one knee in front

of her, a heavy sorrow settling over him.

He knew exactly why she was crying.

A simple bowl of soup had opened the floodgates of memory.

For five years, she had started from nothing, learning as she went, raising a newborn with patience and devotion. She gave everything without complaint, only to have it all repaid with his betrayal, and the resentment and blame of that child she'd loved as her own...

Then, after four years apart, even when fate brought them together again, he'd only managed to hurt her all over.

Each wound had etched itself into her heart, leaving scars that never quite faded.

she'd let go, that she just didn't want to keep clinging to the past. Maybe she was simply too tired to keep caring, too worn out

could

soup, and she was in

complete fool

with regret ashamed of

wanting to wipe away her tears, but Briony turned

she said softly, still refusing to meet his eyes, determined not to

awkwardly

a moment, he swallowed

his feet

closed, Briony buried her

sat untouched, cooling as the

had truly happened. When familiar faces or objects returned, the memories came with them, resurfacing with

at least for now, she couldn't genuinely tell

impossible to hide Briony's

close and trustworthy-except

and Gwendolyn White

her in the hospital. Gwendolyn broke down in tears, while Briony, calm and composed, ended up comforting her instead-even though she

for the time being. With Briony's health so fragile, they couldn't rest

along with private nurses and round-the-clock care, so Gwendolyn and Carney realized there wasn't much more

only Briony and Stewart knew

countryside years ago and knew little about what his nephew had

unaware, thriving under Kendal's gentle

recorded snippets of Julia's life

later, Kendal found an excuse to leave home alone and slipped quietly into the hospital to

rocking chair in the little courtyard, watching one of