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.

needed her case overturned, and both Lauren

to

Lauren's critical condition, the Supreme Court agreed to

filed the necessary reports well in

the case was only now being re-opened, but preparations

after the original verdict, the trial

got word

Kensington arrived

recognized were Briony, Bryn, and a few others who'd been living with her

Briony held Julia's

her shoulder at Kendal, who offered

the video of Lauren

screen, Lauren, terrified out of her mind, confessed to

rage on the

stormed forward, ready

sobbing and wailing in fear, while Neal,

with a twisted, inhuman

by firing squad would be a kind of release

The evidence was overwhelming.

struck. The trial was

Neal

exonerated. The record was cleared. She had her

arrived, Julia seemed more

unsure.

at the plaintiff's table, her daughter's hand gripped tightly in

Mack

twig shouting threats

killing Lauren, his face twisted-so