Abusive Wife

Chapter 52

The golden dagger flew past Bruno, almost nicking his ear in the process. When he realized what had happened, he was so terrified he almost wet

himself!

The dagger had a folded strip of paper attached to it. Bruno waited for a

moment to be sure that no more weapons would come flying at him before he slowly detached the strip of paper and unfolded it.

Written in a small, elegant script was a

message.

“Daddy dearest, why do you and Mom insist on mistreating my son? He’s your grandchild after all, and he’s just a little boy still. How can you treat him like that? I can’t understand it at all, so I have no choice but to return and sort this matter out with the two of you.”

When Bruno read this, his brow knitted tightly together. This had to be a malicious prank. However, when he saw that the signature was Madeline’s, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat!

Madeline? How could this be? She had been dead for ages; how could she possibly come back from the grave after so many years?

The thought of it made Bruno’s scalp prickled, and he felt an icy hand clutch at his heart.

“Kingsley! Kingsley!”

“I’m here, Mr. Bruno sir, what’s the matter?” Kingsley, the Grant family’s butler, came hurrying over. He noticed that his master’s face was as white as a sheet as if something had frightened him badly and hastily moved to support

him.

“It’s Madeline! She’s come back!”

“Sir, do you mean Ms. Madeline? She died five years ago, though, didn’t she?” Kingsley was puzzled and assumed that Bruno had become confused in a moment of senility. Patiently, he corrected his master, attempting to help him upstairs so he could lie down and

rest.

At this moment, something shattered the wall of the villa. Glass and tiles went flying everywhere.

Bruno scarcely had time to take in what was happening before the grappling hook that had been hurled through the wall tightened. In an instant, the entire wall was ripped out of the Grant

residence.

stare in stunned

was

Kingsley had originally been standing in the living room, but now that one

took a step forward to try and discover the perpetrator of

flames licked hungrily at the parquet flooring, which

Kingsley! Someone’s trying to kill

when the entire villa collapsed with a thunderous crash, and fire swallowed everything

gave way. He collapsed limply to sit on the ground. Despair engulfed him in a massive wave. He had lost everything! His home was gone, just like that, destroyed

eager to drive him into his grave? Could it be

Gradually, however, despair and hopelessness overcame his

that very moment,

and well, sitting atop the roof of her car with

with satisfaction at the blazing inferno, she hopped

celebrate.” The simple act of taking revenge had made her feel much better, even though she had let

Ms. Madeline! As

Bar, sitting quietly in a corner of the

Dressed in a pastel pink evening gown, she looked thoroughly out of place in the gaudy, glitzy surroundings, like

soiled by

in a spot that

not behaved like a pig- headed fool and kidnapped Colton, she would not have needed to take such a risk and

grandchild would certainly not be

stupidity

entire Grant family being blacklisted from

have had to get closer to Noah! She had no choice but to find another way around the situation. As long as she became pregnant with Noah’s child, any hardship and humiliation she suffered

information she had received stated that Noah would arrive at 8 o’clock. There were still ten minutes to go, but he was nowhere in sight.

making her

and this sort of entertainment were

grew tired of them. She knew better than anyone why these men were trying to approach her. They

How utterly

arrival, trying her best

hide her face, someone still recognized her eventually. “Ooh look, isn’t that

as us

an oleaginous, chubby man with a large head, large ears,

pore.

would be arriving soon; she did

the delighted comment had caught the attention of a significant number of people, who flocked over