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My Wife

Author: Daniella Nobei
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

I can't define the silence that followed after that.

Even in the car on the way back to the mansion he closed his eyes and never said a word.

I wanted to ask but I also didn't want to piss him off the more so I kept quiet and focused on the road.

But all of a sudden the car stopped moving.

This was when he shut his eyes open.

The driver said they were out of fuel and he quickly apologized before leaving to get fuel.

Seconds turned to minutes and the driver was nowhere to be found.

Edward was buried in his deep thoughts with eyes closed.

I couldn't bear the heat and the tension in the car so I stepped out and he didn't even notice.

No sooner had I stepped out did a bunch of reporters come to crowd me.

Shit.

I'd forgotten for a while that I was Stephanie.

"Ma'am what do you have to say concerning the sudden fall of your husband?" one of them said

"Mrs Collins what would your husband do?"

My mind was in a haze as they kept pointing their annoying microphones at my lips.

I didn't even kn
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