Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 516

Stella blinked in surprise, as if she could hardly believe what she was hearing.

"Bryn, it's strange," she said quietly. "Back when you were hopelessly in love with Stewart, I don't think you ever truly understood him. But now that you don't love him anymore, it's almost as if... you see him more clearly than ever."

Briony paused, caught off guard by the observation.

The living room was silent except for the low, bubbling sound of the kettle boiling in the kitchen.

No one picked up the thread of conversation again.

...

Upstairs at Southcreek Manor, in the master bedroom.

After the IV drip, Stewart's condition finally stabilized, though he remained unconscious.

Dr. Cedric Clarke packed away his medical kit and stepped out of the bedroom, quietly closing the door behind him.

Waiting in the hallway were Lorna, Carl, and Carol-all three watching Cedric with anxious expressions.

Cedric pressed his lips together and sighed. "For now, he's stable," he said, "but his illness is progressing much faster than any of us expected."

is still so

all need to prepare yourselves. I'm afraid... he may not make it through the summer." The words weighed on

kids' summer

brief; by the end of August, you could

of

meant Stewart likely had less than two

everyone in stunned

but it was obvious to her

and Nina soon losing

were just kids-barely reunited with their dad, hardly enough

that when winter comes, he wants to build snowmen and have snowball fights with his dad in the

landed like a punch in the

tone grave. "Carol, you mustn't let

going to

Stewart's illness yet not even the kids." She couldn't bring

not fully understanding the stakes. She assumed Stewart just didn't

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