ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED TO A MAD BILLIONAIRE novel Chapter 19

Chapter 19: THE BEAST’S BRIDE

Penny sat quietly at her dressing table, her reflection barely recognizable. A fresh bandage covered her cheek, the pain dull now, but her thoughts sharp as knives. Hughes worked in silence, tending to her wounds with careful hands.

Penny was grateful for the silence. She didn’t want pity. She didn’t want questions.

But suddenly, Hughes spoke.

"You shouldn’t let her speak to you like that."

Penny blinked. "Who?"

"Ariana," Hughes said after a pause, her voice low. "She shouldn’t be allowed to humiliate you like that. None of them should." Hughes said. Penny was the key to their wealth, though she was still a little skeptical about whether to tell Penny about it or not.

Or maybe she’d just let Penny find out on her own.

"I knew they’d try something," Hughes whispered. "I should’ve never told them."

"Told who what?" Penny asked, her eyes narrowing.

Hughes hesitated, her fingers trembling as they hovered over the bandage. And then, quietly, she confessed.

"Master Osvaldo... he hates the smell of cinnamon. It triggers him. Your body... your clothes... you were covered in it."

"What?"

"It was Master Gregory," Hughes said, voice cracking as she fell to her knees. "He told me to spray it on you this morning. I didn’t know why until I saw what happened."

Penny’s blood ran cold.

Hughes clapped her hands together, bowing low. "Please forgive me, Miss Penny. I had no idea it was a setup. I thought it was harmless. But he... he planned it. They wanted him to attack you."

Her heart sank as she heard her housekeeper speak.

Penny didn’t understand what had happened. She knew something was wrong. The Adkins needed her for Osvaldo’s wealth, yet they want her dead? How was that even possible?

She frowned. These people must think she’s stupid. Osvaldo would never have hurt her if she didn’t have the cinnamon spray on.

This meant he was suffering for nothing. And she has gotten hurt for nothing either. Even though she had a little information, she had yet to pick the puzzles together and that’s because she had seen Osvaldo become sane that day.

He had spoken to her and even agreed to divorce her. So what happened?

"Is Osvaldo twin?" Penny asked to see Hughes shake her head chuckling even. It was ridiculous to think her mad master was twin, but she wondered why her new mistress asked that.

"Has he ever been sane even for a minute?" Hughes shook her head again. Penny pressed her lips into a thin line. The man she had seen last night... was that a dream?

She would need to find out herself tonight. She would have to speak to Osvaldo again tonight. But not with the guards beating him that way.

"In truth Mistress, the only reason you’re married to master Osvaldo is because of his wealth." Penny was taken aback by Hughes’s words.

"Don’t think for a second that the Adkins family love you. They don’t." The housekeeper continued.

She was loyal to her master and since her master has taken a liking towards the girl, it is her duty to be loyal too to Penny.

They have been with Osvaldo since the beginning of time since his father handed him over to Greg and Abby. They had seen how the Adkins formally known as the Petersons punished the little boy.

"I left my bags in my car. Can you get them for me?" Hughes nodded, she rose, bowing gently to her mistress before stepping out of the room. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

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