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.

only stare in

was being

and Kingsley had originally been standing in the living room, but now that one wall of the house was

a step forward to try and discover the perpetrator of this outrage,

the parquet flooring, which

Kingsley! Someone’s trying to kill me!” He grabbed Kingsley’s wrist and fled

entire villa collapsed with a thunderous

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

eager to drive him into his

mind was spinning. Gradually, however, despair and hopelessness overcame

that very moment, Madeline

well, sitting atop the roof of her car with

she hopped down and got into

better, even

Madeline! As

in the Enchanteur Bar, sitting quietly in a

she looked thoroughly out of place in the gaudy, glitzy surroundings, like

had been soiled by the cares

She was now seated in a spot that he was

to blame for all this. If Bruno had not behaved like a pig- headed fool and kidnapped Colton, she would not have needed to take such a risk and

his own grandchild would certainly not be invited

ill-judged stupidity had

being blacklisted from Colton’s birthday

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.

o’clock. There were still ten minutes to go, but he was nowhere in sight.

making her

and this sort of

than anyone why these men were trying to approach her. They were all unattractive and as ugly as

How

why Angie had settled herself in the corner of the lounge before Noah’s arrival, trying her best

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? Doesn’t that

us ordinary folks

with a large head, large ears, and

pore.

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

of a significant number of people, who flocked over to see what was going