The Bride’s Revenge

Chapter 2

The pain was overwhelming, and her heart ached profoundly. Despite that, Jameson did not move to her. He lowered his gaze and got into the waiting car.

The black sedan swiftly merged into traffic. In just a few seconds, Marion could not see Jameson’s car anymore. Under the dim yellow streetlights, the blood-stained white wedding gown appeared excessively vivid in its crimson hue.

Bernadette stood on the side, her face drained of color, too frightened to move Marion, afraid of causing her further harm.

“Marion, don’t be afraid. I’ll call an ambulance right away!”

Her attention was focused solely on Marion despite just having watched her son leave the wedding venue.

Richard hurried over, his face pale. His voice trembled as he spoke, “Marion, how are you?”

He did not dare touch his daughter. The urgency had reddened his eyes.

Marion reached up and grasped her father’s arm. The piercing pain in her lower legs had turned her face to paper. She looked at him, her eyes could not hold back the tears. “Dad, it hurts so much—”

in her legs and

had never seen his daughter cry this way. He would have taken this pain for

afraid. Dad is

she could no longer keep her eyes open. “Dad,” she cried

in the operating theater and a few more in the intensive care unit before she

she did not wake up within the next forty-eight hours,

nearly fainted. His wife had passed away, leaving him to raise his precious daughter

the Royce, he decided that he could no longer stand their presence. “Get out! All

trusting them to leave, he followed them to the hospital doors, leaving only Marion’s close friend, Cassie

By the time she realized something was wrong, Marion had already been taken away in

well-planned wedding had turned into this. What had happened to her

Jameson not have

and Joseph Royce out of the hospital building. As they watched his retreating figure, Joseph could

not for Jameson’s

what kind of hold Sally had on her