Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 239

The air went still, thick with unspoken tension.

Scarlett turned slowly, her movements heavy and deliberate.

Their eyes met, and Briony felt her heart plummet.

Scarlett stared at her, disbelief etched deep into eyes still swollen and red from days of weeping.

"How is this possible..." Scarlett shook her head, let out a hollow, humorless laugh, then whipped around to glare at Quentin, her voice trembling with fury. "Why? Why is this about Bryn?"

Quentin just smiled, cold and unrepentant. “Because I can't stand her," he replied, his tone casual, almost flippant. "I don't want to see Briony happy. So anyone close to her anyone she cares about I'll make sure they pay for it."

"That's your reason?" Scarlett's laugh broke apart into sobs, tears streaming down her face. "Quentin! I'll kill you! You bastard-!”

Scarlett screamed and launched herself at Quentin, but a pair of officers caught her just in time, holding her back as she thrashed in their arms.

Quentin watched her unravel, then threw his head back and laughed, wild and triumphant.

It was too much for Scarlett. Her body crumpled, and she fainted dead away.

Ableson and the police hurried to get her to the hospital.

As Quentin was being led away to the holding cells, he fixed Briony with a chilling, venomous grin. Even with his hands cuffed, he managed to drag a finger across his throat in a grotesque, mocking threat.

James's fists clenched at the sight; he looked ready to lunge, but Briony grabbed his arm, stopping him.

The two of them stepped out of the police station, James seething. "That Quentin is a real piece of work. All that charm—just a mask for a monster."

Briony said nothing.

and realized

let what Quentin said get to

looked up, shaking her head. "It's

"What do you mean?"

for me is so... sudden." She

to fall into

not sure. We

Quentin's the heir to the Lockwood family. He runs the whole estate now. Would he

asking myself," Briony replied. "They're not even real siblings. Even if they were,

of the Lockwoods, throwing his

to be something else going on,

as she looks. Should we―" James was interrupted

past few days, terrified she might miss any

Dr.

immediately.

Cedric said. "We're heading to Horizon

be there as soon as

she and James rushed out toward the

hard times after Quentin's scandal; the atmosphere was tense and

the ambulance, Scarlett woke up sobbing in Ableson's arms, crying

for her, and he did his best to

Ableson's phone rang. It was

would be at the hospital soon.

arrived, he and

Clarke and Stewart were waiting outside the

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