Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

"Come to the firm. We'll talk in person."

Briony frowned. "Stewart, don't tell me you're still holding onto those three conditions?"

Stewart was silent.

His lack of response was answer enough.

Briony let out a bitter laugh. "Aren't you worried I'll snap and drag you down with me?"

"And how exactly would you do that?" Stewart's voice was cold. "Expose me online again with a burner account? Briony, you tried that before. Did it work?" Briony pressed her lips together, her grip on her phone tightening.

"Or are you thinking of causing a scene at the wedding next?"

She froze, caught off guard.

"Not a bad idea," Stewart said with a short, humorless laugh. "But do you really think I wouldn't be prepared? If I'm bold enough to announce the wedding before we've even signed the divorce papers, it means I've covered all my bases. Briony, you can't outplay me-not in Northborough."

despicable, shameless man I've ever met! What will it take for you to let me

low and steady. "I just want those three things. You agree to

the one who wronged you!"

a man

growing anxious as he saw

James's voice through the

a rush to get divorced, Briony. Is it

to

settle this face-to- face. If you don't show, I'll take it as

the call

of the disconnected line filled Briony's ears. She clenched her teeth, her breaths

"Don't let him get to you, okay? Think about our little girl! My

the glass, and after a few gulps of warm water, she finally felt her chest loosen a

calm

"He's still insisting on those