Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

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If it was about the children, Briony needed to know the details. "What is it?" "Xenia Cooper has an eight-year-old son." Briony froze for a moment.

An eight-year-old son...

Her brows drew together. "So you're just stepping in as someone's ready-made stepfather?" Stewart cleared his throat. "That's how it will look to outsiders." Briony pressed her lips into a thin line.

Her mind went straight to Irwin Wentworth.

That boy had once been the fatal crack in her and Stewart's marriage.

Even though Irwin was eventually sent away, the arguments and misunderstandings he'd brought with him still lingered vividly in Briony's memory.

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"Stewart, do what you like for appearances' sake, but when it comes to the children, I expect you not to disappoint them." "Don't worry, I won't." Stewart's expression softened, as if he, too, recalled the turmoil Irwin had caused them, and he dared not conceal anything from her.

"Xenia Cooper once had a fiancé she loved deeply. Eight years ago, there was a car accident. The eldest Cooper son was left in a coma, and her fiancé died." Briony's breath caught.

"The boy is her late fiancé's child." For a moment, Briony didn't know what to say.

"The Cooper family is in the middle of a vicious power struggle. Xenia fled abroad to have the child in secret. She raised him overseas all these years and only recently brought him back, still keeping his identity quiet. But now, she plans to groom him as her heir." Briony frowned. "So she wants to claim the boy as yours and hers in public?" Stewart's lips tightened. He stared at her with dark, unreadable eyes.

His silence was answer enough.

Briony let out a bitter laugh. "Stewart, do you have any idea what that means?" He looked away, guilt shadowing his face. "Bryn, I'll explain everything to the kids myself." "Do whatever you want." Briony was done arguing. "This is between you and our children. If they don't mind, it's not my place to say anything." She took a deep breath, fixing Stewart with a cold, distant gaze. "From today onward, if we meet again, you'll be Mrs. Cooper's husband. I'll address you as M Wentworth, and I'd appreciate it if you'd use my surnout of respect and courtesy." Stewart was stunned.

Briony didn't spare him another glance. She turned away and walked into the house, not once looking back. Her retreat was final. After this, Stewart wouldn't even have the right to call her "Bryn." He hung his head. His tall figure looked achingly lonely in the dark.

Briony returned to her bedroom and shut the door behind her.

With her back pressed to the wood, she slid slowly to the floor.

She covered her face with her hands, tears soaking through her palms.

She minded, after all.

She minded that he was becoming another woman's husband, minded that he was about to claim another woman's child as his own.

Turns out, she wasn't as indifferent as she'd thought.

But there was no going back.

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Her story with Stewart had ended for good.

After that day, Briony and Stewart never saw each other again.

Stewart beceven busier. As the Cooper family's newly minted son-in-law, his reputation and ability made people wary, but the family feud had reached fever pitch. stepping in now, Stewart becthe thorn in everyone's side. The content. is on novelenglish.net!

But as Xenia Cooper's lawful husband and a formidable figure in the world of law and politics, it only took a month or so for him to sweep aside the Cooper family's troublemaking relatives.

By mid-March, Stewart had been promoted to Executive Vice President of the Neonova Syndicate, second only to Xenia Cooper herself.

Xenia's decision met with fierce resistance, but she pressed on, M e undeterred.

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