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

heard this, she hurried back out

was howling, and fat raindrops pelted the

unconscious. Please, you need to come inside! The waves are getting worse

Briony refused to let go of

terrified that if she went back inside, Stewart would wake up

consciousness from a spleen injury. The captain's already

streaming down her face, Bianca raised her voice over the storm,

cold, ma'am. Right now, you have more say on

Briony blinked, startled.

weather was growing fiercer by the

her

saw

she woke from a nightmare.

hittle Nina's still waiting

at home!"

welled up and spilled from Briony's eyes.

Briony wouldn't return

brought her to

me

hot shower and change out of that wet

Bianca suggested gently.

Her wedding gown was

just like her

blood and

the bathroom, Bianca helped Briony out of the heavy, sopping gown