Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Julia was missing.

Stella and Gina had spent hours combing the area around Dolphin Cove with Briony, but there wasn't a single clue to be found.

Night had fallen, New Year's Eve was one day closer, and the sky was dumping endless snow, blanketing the entire city in a relentless blizzard.

Briony wandered through the storm like a lost child, searching for any trace of Julia.

Where could her mother have gone?

This city was so vast, and yet the only place her mother could truly call home was their modest apartment near Dolphin Cove-a hundred square meters and nothing more. But Julia wasn't there.

Why did she leave?

Briony couldn't make sense of it. The guilt gnawed at her; she blamed herself for not looking after her mother, for not being thoughtful enough...

The wind and snow grew harsher, battering her slender frame until she staggered. Several times she slipped and fell, but each time she stubbornly pushed herself back to her feet.

No matter how Stella tried to talk sense into her, Briony wouldn't listen. Searching for someone on foot in weather like this was madness-pure self-punishment.

Finally, when reasoning failed, Stella and Gina resorted to force, dragging Briony back into the car.

four in the morning,

was on the

heard Julia was missing, Cedric sprang out of bed, dressed in record time, grabbed

Cayenne pulled up outside the Kensington

BMW idled nearby, headlights

stepped out and walked over. As he approached, Stella and

to trouble you again, Dr. Clarke," Briony rasped,

family's influence in Northborough, even the Kensingtons wouldn't dare turn Cedric away. The situation was urgent, and Briony had no

one look at her face and frowned. "Wait in the car. Dr. Joyner and I will

paler than the swirling snow, her nose and eyes red and swollen, her whole body ragged with exhaustion. The bandage on her forehead was spotted with

"Dr. Clarke's right, Bryn. Wait in the

pressed her lips together and said nothing, but she didn't

hasn't been found yet

She nodded and turned back to the

closed the door behind her and stared anxiously out the window, watching as

The wait was agonizing.

the wind howled; inside the car, Briony kept her eyes glued to the big iron gates. She both hoped

if the Kensingtons found