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.

in the morning, Cedric Clarke's

was on

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

later, his white Cayenne pulled up outside the

BMW idled nearby, headlights

walked over. As he approached, Stella

sorry to trouble you again, Dr. Clarke,"

turn Cedric away. The situation was

look at her face and frowned. "Wait

red and swollen, her whole body ragged with exhaustion. The

Clarke's right, Bryn.

and said nothing,

Hudson hasn't been found yet

got through to Briony. She nodded and

out the window, watching as Stella and Cedric

The wait was agonizing.

to the big iron gates. She both hoped her mother was

if the Kensingtons found her