Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Lauren shook her head, her bulging, pain-ridden eyes now wide with terror.

"I never wanted any of this. I know I did you wrong, but I can't go back to that miserable life. I can't handle moving overseas, Neal. Please, just move on. We weren't meant to be in this life-maybe the next one, or the next chapter of this one, we can be together again. Let me go! I don't want to die—not yet!"

"You don't want to die?" Neal's laughter was harsh and guttural, his burned throat making him sound like some demon come to collect her soul.

"Lauren, you should've died a long time ago! Have you seen what a wreck your body is? Those so-called miracle pills you're taking every month-do you really think they're saving you? Let me tell you: they're illegal drugs. You're not going to last much longer. You're dying, and it's going to be ugly."

Lauren's pupils dilated in panic. She shook her head desperately. "No, no, that can't be. I spent so much money on those meds. I'll get better. I'm not going to die. I'm not!"

Neal's laugh grew even more frenzied. "You spent your whole life using men, Lauren, but in the end, it's a man who brought you down!"

He sneered, his rage boiling over. "You want to know the truth? I'm the one who gave you HIV. You wanted to get rid of me? Well, now you'll have to carry the curse I left you straight to hell!"

"I'll be waiting for you down there, Lauren. We'll be together for all eternity, never apart!"

He lunged and seized Lauren's arm.

"No! Neal, let go of me! I don't want this-let me go!" Lauren screamed in terror, her panic so overwhelming she wet herself on the spot.

Neal looked like he might strangle her right then and there.

But he never got the chance.

Stewart's men rushed in and pulled Neal away.

Lauren fainted from sheer terror.

She didn't have much time left, but she couldn't die just yet.

and both Lauren and Neal

handed the case over to Lawyer Hughes for

Supreme Court agreed to

had already filed the necessary

case was only now being re-opened, but preparations had been underway for

verdict, the trial was set to begin

got word

hearing, Madeline Kensington arrived in

still hadn't fully recovered her memory. The only people she recognized were Briony, Bryn, and a

the proceedings began, Briony held Julia's hand

her shoulder at Kendal, who offered her a reassuring

the court played the video

Lauren, terrified out of her mind, confessed to everything under Neal's

from rage

stormed forward, ready to

in fear, while Neal,

a twisted, inhuman

squad would be a kind of

The evidence was overwhelming.

gavel struck. The

and Neal

Julia was finally exonerated. The record was cleared. She

the day finally arrived, Julia seemed more like a

unsure.

her daughter's hand

Mack

twig shouting threats

killing Lauren, his face twisted-so