Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

Briony kept her head bowed, afraid he might notice something was wrong.

She nodded quietly and lifted another spoonful of soup to her lips.

Stewart stood nearby, watching her. It wasn't until her third bite that he finally noticed something was off.

He quickly crouched down beside her, just in time to see a tear slip from her eye.

The tear landed in the pale soup.

A sharp ache pulsed in Stewart's chest. "Bryn?"

Briony reached up to wipe her eyes. "I'm fine, really..."

Stewart gently took the bowl from her hands and set it on the table.

"Bryn, I'm sorry. I know I put you through so much." He knelt on one knee in front of her, a heavy sorrow settling over him.

He knew exactly why she was crying.

A simple bowl of soup had opened the floodgates of memory.

For five years, she had started from nothing, learning as she went, raising a newborn with patience and devotion. She gave everything without complaint, only to have it all repaid with his betrayal, and the resentment and blame of that child she'd loved as her own...

Then, after four years apart, even when fate brought them together again, he'd only managed to hurt her all over.

Each wound had etched itself into her heart, leaving scars that never quite faded.

clinging to the past. Maybe she was

happened-how could anyone ever

soup, and she was in

a complete

was consumed with regret ashamed of all the pain he'd

to wipe away her tears,

said softly, still refusing to meet his eyes,

hung awkwardly in

moment, he swallowed

to his feet and

the door closed, Briony buried her face in her

untouched, cooling as the minutes ticked

pain, but it couldn't erase what had truly happened. When familiar faces or objects returned, the memories came with them, resurfacing

knew, at least for now, she couldn't genuinely tell her past self that

impossible to hide

and trustworthy-except

Carney Winslow and

in the hospital. Gwendolyn broke down in tears, while Briony, calm and composed, ended up comforting her instead-even though she was

time being. With Briony's health so fragile, they

along with private nurses and round-the-clock care, so Gwendolyn and Carney realized there wasn't much more they could do. They returned to Skybreeze Retreat to look after the two

Ferdinand's sensitive background, even now, only Briony and Stewart knew the full

to the countryside years ago and knew little about what his nephew had been

remained blissfully unaware, thriving under Kendal's gentle

Julia's life