His unwanted wife, the world’s coveted genius by Derk Blaylock

Chapter 96:

Carola stayed quiet for a lengthy period.

Breaking the silence, Belinda chuckled lightly and said, “You came here to ask me to apologize to Kylee, right?”

Carola met her gaze and replied in a calm voice, “I’m here to seek the truth.”

“The truth?” Belinda’s voice took on a bitter edge. “It’s elusive.”

Without any surveillance in the dining room and just our conflicting stories, how can the truth be definitively determined?”

Carola fell silent once more. After a moment, she exhaled softly and said, “Belinda, you seem so different now.”

remembered would never have retaliated against

and responded, “Yes, I’ve changed. And honestly, I’m okay with the person I’ve become. I’m not letting

at Carola and asked, “Carola, do you really think I would intentionally scald Kylee’s hand? You remember the incident three years ago—Kylee wrongly accused me of pushing her on purpose, and Dad beat me so badly that my back was left in tatters. If I had really scalded her hand on purpose, what would be in it for me? That would only make Dad think even less of me! Plus, you know how much I cared for Lucas before. If I had acted so cruelly

so openly before, knowing that doing so in front of Baker and Holley would have been futile. Baker and Holley had never taken

once implied that Belinda had deliberately hurt Kylee or that she

while, her gaze lowering. Then, with a light chuckle, she said, “And yet, you ended up deliberately pouring the soup on Kylee’s

what’s new on

I thought, ‘Why not fulfill their expectations?’ If they were determined to see it that way, I might as well show them exactly that,” she

for a moment before she slightly shook her head and said, “You know, your fiery spirit reminds me a little of myself in my younger

directly, “Carola, I’m going to be straight

I didn’t do, and for

words, Carola’s expression was somewhat resigned. After a brief silence, she said,

and did