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

was

in the living room, but now that one wall of the house was gone, they were both

a step forward to try and discover the perpetrator of this outrage, but his path was immediately

licked hungrily at the parquet flooring, which

turned to jelly. “Run for it, Kingsley! Someone’s trying

collapsed with a thunderous crash,

collapsed limply to sit on the ground. Despair engulfed him in

on earth was so eager to drive him into his grave? Could it be that Madeline had actually returned? She was

mind was spinning. Gradually, however, despair and

that very

of

blazing inferno, she hopped

go and celebrate.” The simple act of taking revenge had made her feel much better, even

Ms. Madeline! As you

the Enchanteur Bar, sitting

gown, she looked thoroughly out of place

been soiled by the cares

in dressing up. She was now seated in a spot that he was sure to pass on his way to the private rooms, hoping

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

kidnapped his own grandchild would certainly not be

ill-judged stupidity had

the entire Grant family being blacklisted from Colton’s

another way around the situation. As long as she became pregnant with Noah’s child, any hardship and humiliation she suffered now would

ten minutes to go, but he was

making her

sort

why these men were trying to approach her. They were

How utterly

Angie had settled herself in the corner of the lounge before Noah’s arrival, trying her best to keep a low profile

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 would have thought even princesses come out to drink at bars as well?

us ordinary

ears, and an equally large rotund stomach. He practically

pore.

kept her head down and refused to look at him. Noah would be arriving soon; she did not wish to

the delighted comment had caught the attention of a significant number of people, who flocked over to see what was