Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

He was speaking when, all of a sudden, he coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of blood.

A moment later, the man could hold himself up no longer. His tall frame collapsed,

knees slamming hard against the unforgiving deck.

He coughed again, more blood spilling from his lips.

Briony hadn't hesitated-her aim had been both ruthless and precise.

It must have hit his spleen.

Bianca heard the commotion and came running. When she saw Stewart kneeling on the deck, a knife still lodged in his side and blood on his lips, she gasped in horror and called frantically for the doctor.

Their private physician rushed over.

Stewart, clinging to consciousness by a thread, managed to command, "Turn the boat around. Now. And... get my wife back to her cabin-"

With those words, his eyes fluttered shut. He passed out cold.

"Sir!"

Briony watched as Stewart was carried away toward the cabins.

Conditions on the yacht were far from ideal. The doctor could do little more than stop the bleeding.

Bianca pressed him for answers.

injured," the doctor admitted, his voice strained. "I can't risk removing the knife out here. We need to get him

as Bianca heard this, she hurried back out

the wind was howling, and fat

Briony's arm. "Ma'am, he's unconscious. Please, you need to come inside! The waves are getting worse out here.

let go of

inside, Stewart would

lost consciousness from a spleen injury. The captain's

streaming down her face, Bianca raised her voice

more say on this yacht than

Briony blinked, startled.

weather was growing fiercer by the

her face like a

she saw Little

was as if she woke from a nightmare.

hittle Nina's still waiting

at home!"

eyes. Relieved, Bianca quickly helped her

return to

Bianca brought her to her own cabin

me

shower and change out of that

Bianca suggested gently.

at herself. Her wedding gown was drenched, streaked with

looked just like

blood

the bathroom, Bianca helped Briony out of the heavy,