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.

could only stare in stunned

was being

but now that one wall of the house was gone, they were both visible from the

discover the perpetrator of this outrage, but his path was immediately blocked

the parquet flooring, which immediately

so terrified his legs turned to jelly. “Run for it, Kingsley! Someone’s trying to kill me!” He grabbed Kingsley’s wrist and fled for the back

had barely scrambled out when the entire villa collapsed with a thunderous crash, and fire

Despair engulfed him in a massive wave. He had lost everything! His home was gone, just like

for this outrage? Who on earth was so eager to drive him into his grave? Could it

Gradually, however, despair and hopelessness overcame

that very

roof of her car with a

she hopped down and got into the

made her feel much better, even though she had let

Madeline! As you

the Enchanteur Bar, sitting quietly in a corner

lounge. Dressed in a pastel pink evening gown, she looked thoroughly out of place in the

by the cares of

that Noah would be here today, so she had taken particular care in dressing up. She was now seated in a spot that he was sure to pass on his

not behaved like a pig- headed fool and kidnapped Colton, she

certainly not be invited to the birthday

ill-judged stupidity had

Grant family being

meant she had lost any chances she might 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 now would not signify any longer in

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

karaoke lounges, and this sort of

them. She knew better than anyone why these men were trying to approach her. They were all unattractive and as ugly as toads, yet they

How utterly

lounge before Noah’s arrival, trying her best to keep a low profile and not

her recently. Even though she was wearing a black mask and a hat to hide her face, someone still recognized her eventually. “Ooh look, isn’t that Imperia’s very own charitable princess over

as us

head, large ears, and an equally large

pore.

her head down and refused to look at him. Noah would be

over to see what was going