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

was

but now that one wall

perpetrator of this outrage, but his path was immediately blocked

the

was 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

when the entire villa collapsed with a thunderous crash, and

and his legs gave way. He collapsed limply to sit on the ground. Despair engulfed him in a massive wave. He had lost everything! His home

so eager to drive him into his grave? Could it be

mind was spinning. Gradually, however, despair

very moment, Madeline

and well, sitting atop the roof of her car with

she hopped

much better, even though she had let Bruno off this time. The

Madeline! As you

Enchanteur Bar, sitting

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

had been soiled by the cares of

would be here today, so she had taken particular care in dressing up. She was now seated in a spot that

for all this. If Bruno had not behaved like a pig- headed fool and kidnapped Colton, she

would certainly not be invited to the birthday party

ill-judged stupidity had

being

to find another way around the situation. As long as

minutes to go, but he was nowhere in sight. Quite a number of inebriated individuals approached her to strike

making her

sort of entertainment were

men were trying to approach her. They

How

the lounge before Noah’s arrival, trying her best

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 there? Who

us ordinary

was an oleaginous, chubby man with a large head, large ears, and an equally large rotund stomach.

pore.

head down and refused to look at him. Noah would be arriving soon;

significant number of people, who flocked over to see