Chasing His Runaway Wife by Jamie Stones (Tabitha Jarvis) novel Chapter 7

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The doctors and nurses quickly arrived and helped Alaric out. Meanwhile, Malcolm hurriedly followed the team away without sparing a glance at Tabitha.

Tabitha’s lips quivered and her fingers trembled violently.

Malcolm was the one who pulled her out of her abyss of despair with his warm hands.

She thought he was to be the salvation of her life. Yet, things had come to

this.

Malcolm left in such a hurry that he completely disregarded Naomi.

Naomi sneaked a few glances at Tabitha. Seeing that the latter had not paid much attention to her presence, she quietly moved closer to the door.

“Naomi,” Tabitha suddenly called out, her eyes cold. “It’s been eight years. Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Tabitha’s voice seemed so faint that it could disappear with the breeze, yet Naomi felt a chill go down her spine when she heard it.

Naomi’s expression stiffened. She cautiously looked at the closed door and forced out a few tears.

“Ms. Jarvis, I know how sad you are to lose your parents. But it was an accident, and I was also a victim. I didn’t want it to happen,” she sobbed quietly with an innocent look on her face, implying that Tabitha should not have blamed her or gotten upset.

“An accident?” Tabitha repeated the phrase, enunciating both words carefully. She chuckled before taking a deep breath. The anger and pain she felt were showing despite her effort to mask it with her calm voice.

Back then, Naomi was pestered by hooligans outside a bar and asked Tabitha’s parents, Raphael and Meghan for help. In the midst of the chaos, Raphael was stabbed, but Naomi took advantage of the situation and ran

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“Back then, my dad had gotten seriously injured trying to save you, and my mom begged you to call 911. Yet, you ran away, causing my mom to have a heart attack there and then,” Tabitha said as she got up and slowly walked toward Naomi.

Tabitha was frail and delicate, yet it was as if her gaze contained blades, ready to slash at Naomi. Naomi could not bear such a fierce presence. She dared not make eye contact and instinctively turned away.

“The doctor said they could’ve survived if they’d been sent to the hospital on time. It was all because of your ungratefulness and apathy that my dad died from excessive blood loss, which indirectly led to my mom’s heart attack and subsequent death,” Tabitha said.

With each word Tabitha uttered, Naomi’s complexion grew paler, and the guilt flickering in her eyes became increasingly difficult to conceal.

Naomi gazed at Tabitha with teary eyes, earnestly defending herself. “I didn’t want to run away at that moment. Those hooligans had taken my phone away, and I ran to get help. Yet, it was still too late…”

“That’s enough!” Tabitha suddenly raised her voice and slapped Naomi with all her strength.

“You’re lying! I sought out those people, and they admitted that they didn’t touch you at all, let alone take your phone!” Tabitha screamed. “You left my parents to die, you ungrateful person!”

Eight years ago, those hooligans had fled the scene after seeing the amount of blood coming out of Raphael’s body. Naomi was no longer in danger, and yet she still ran away.

Back then, if she had just called 911, Raphael and Meghan would not have died.

The law stipulated that if a person’s behavior endangered others and the person did nothing to help those in danger, that person could be charged

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