A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 661

For the first time, Brinley Seabrook had to actually follow through on something she said.

In the past, whenever she made a dramatic threat, the people around her would rush to stop her, often shifting the blame onto Starla Lansbury. She was entirely too used to everyone protecting her.

But now, faced with actually delivering on her words for the very first time, how could she do it? This was a matter of life and death!

Seeing her frozen in place, Starla's expression sharpened into ice. "Well?"

"I don't want to die!"

Living was easy. Dying? That was terrifyingly permanent. Once you were gone, you lost everything. Brinley had always been inherently selfish, a trait coddled into her by years of being treated like a fragile princess. Someone like her could never willingly give up her own life. She couldn't bear to part with it.

Backed into a corner by Starla's relentless pressure, she blurted it out straight: "I'm not dying!"

Wasn't she supposed to be a woman of her word? Starla had taken her careless bluff seriously, and now what?! If Starla could hold her to her words, couldn't she also allow her to take them back?

"So you won't trade," Starla said coolly. "Then your child will just have to die on his own."

"You can't be this vicious! He's just a baby."

"I'm not the one killing him," Starla replied.

Brinley was speechless.

"I have never harmed him."

It was true. Starla wasn't the cause of the child's suffering, nor did she have any intention of actively hurting him. Even though Brinley had caused Starla to lose her own unborn children twice, Starla had never once considered murdering Brinley's child for revenge. Her choice right now was simply... not to save him.

Brinley's heart gave a violent tremble. "You can't just watch him die!"

"I'm not at the hospital, am I? So how exactly am I watching him die?"

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