Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 100

Afterward, he grabbed a couple of toys from the side and walked out the front door without a backward glance.

Madelyn enjoyed the peace, casually shutting the door behind her and leaving Nate outside.

Listening to the door slam behind him, Nate fiddled with the toy wand in his hands and pouted, muttering. “Natalie, I miss you. But you don’t like me anymore…”

With that, he reached up to clean his tears.

It had been days since he’d seen Natalie, and Nate missed her so much that he would cry at night. Natalie used to tell him bedtime stories, sing him to sleep, and help him brush his teeth, wash his face, get dressed, and put on his shoes in the morning.

But Brian said Natalie had been too busy to look after him lately, so Nate had to endure it.

He played with the wand one–handed, contemplating how to find an excuse to see Natalie again. when the wand suddenly flew out of his grasp and landed in a nearby dense rose bush.

“Aw, man!” Nate frowned, scanning the surroundings. There wasn’t a servant in sight in the garden.

a moment’s thought, he clambered down the stairs and started searching for his wand among

velvet box in the corner drew his

he whispered, making his way toward it.

he tripped over some tangled roots and tumbled headlong into the thicket.

Meadows Manor, where the servant Sadie was already beside herself with worry, and Nate was crying so hard that his

turning and grabbing the family doctor by the collar, demanding in a deep voice,

right onto them, slicing his leg open.” explained Dr. Benjamin Morales, unfazed by

serious, but the cuts are quite deep.”

all doing at the time?” Brian couldn’t help frowning as he

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gone out to grab some groceries, and the other two servants were upstairs cleaning. Nobody

was meticulous and always looked well after

packed away his medical kit and shot Brian a

wasn’t anyone else’s fault. Benjamin thought the issue lay

to Sadie and the other servants, only Madelyn and Nate were