To Love a Shadow, To Be the Sun novel Chapter 44

But this was the first time Yves Caldwell had ever seen Brian unleash such violence.

"Anyone else lay a hand on my wife?"

Brian's voice was cold enough to make their blood run cold.

The thugs shook their heads so hard they looked like bobbleheads.

With a snort, Brian slammed his fist into the blond kid who'd just managed to sit up, knocking him down once more before finally accepting the tissue Yves Caldwell offered him.

"I hear your uncle's got some real pull. I'll send you straight to him. Pass on a message for me—tell him to burn plenty of candles for himself."

The blond kid trembled head to toe at that.

Brian slid into his car, finally having vented his rage; the stormy look on his face eased a little.

Yves Caldwell handed him a bottle of water, his voice full of concern. "Mr. Vincent, if you ever want to get even, all you have to do is say the word—there are people who'd fight each other for the chance to do it for you."

Brian sprayed sanitizer onto his hands, his eyes as cold as a frozen lake.

"They hurt my wife. If I don't handle this myself, I'm not worthy of being her husband."

Yves Caldwell nodded, but thought to himself: If you're using thugs for punching bags, isn't it because you can't argue with your wife instead?

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The next morning, when Elara woke up and didn't see Brian, she didn't ask any questions.

All that waited for her was a quiet message from him on her phone:

Make sure you eat something.

In four years of marriage, she'd never kept anything from him—not even her phone password, which he knew by heart.

While she slept, he'd quietly removed himself from her blocked contacts.

So be it. Elara didn't reply. She ate her breakfast, then headed straight to the hospital.

Her grandfather had finally been moved from intensive care to a regular room.

She went to find the doctor, asking about the medication that cost $120,000 a dose.

"You understand, right? That's $120,000 every month. It can't be interrupted," the doctor warned.

Rose finally caved.

"The village chief's son got arrested. The chief came to me and said he could get us a place with a 90% discount from the developer. He said it was their way of making it up to us."

"The blond kid got arrested?" Elara was surprised.

Rose nodded emphatically. "It's true—the police even came to see me. His uncle's keeping his head down too."

Who could have pulled strings to put someone like that behind bars?

Other than Brian, there wasn't a second person in the world who'd go so far for her.

Elara suddenly didn't know what she was feeling. Rose, meanwhile, started lecturing her.

"Mr. Vincent loves you this much—why on earth are you divorcing him? With him around, no one in Kingston City would dare lay a finger on you. Your grandfather's medical bills would be nothing to him. You'd have nothing to worry about! How can you even think of leaving such a good man? Are you out of your mind?"

But before Elara could answer, the two women caught sight of Lina hurrying into the hospital behind Brian, clutching a thermal container.

Elara's eyes narrowed. Wasn't Lina supposed to have been sent away last night?