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 just didn't want to keep clinging to the past. Maybe she was simply too

could

soup, and she was

been a complete

with regret ashamed of all the pain he'd

away her tears, but Briony turned away before he

a moment alone," she said softly, still refusing to meet his

awkwardly in the

a moment, he swallowed hard

got to his feet

Briony buried

bowl of soup sat untouched,

the sharpest pain, but it couldn't erase what had truly happened. When familiar faces or objects returned, the memories came

least for now, she couldn't genuinely tell her past self that

hide Briony's illness

everyone close and trustworthy-except for

heard, Carney Winslow and Gwendolyn White rushed

down in tears, while Briony, calm and composed, ended up comforting her instead-even though she was the one

stay in Northborough for the time being. With Briony's health so fragile, they couldn't rest easy going back

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

background, even now, only

had retired to the countryside years ago and knew little

thriving under Kendal's gentle

recorded snippets of Julia's

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

he arrived, Briony was sitting in a rocking chair in the little courtyard, watching one of Gina's videos