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

Chapter 1356:

Kenia’s gaze was stern, unwavering. “You’re saying you don’t know him? Holley, you should realize that I’m asking because we already know the truth about you and him. I’m giving you a chance to confess on your own.”

Holley’s face paled, her panic impossible to conceal.

She had no clue how much Kenia and Belinda had uncovered or what evidence they held.

“Mom, I really don’t know what you mean,” she said, clinging to her denial.

Kenia’s expression darkened with disappointment. “The hormones in Belinda’s body, the fifty thousand you paid Lamont, the recording of you bribing him…”

Her voice sharpened, rising. “Do I need to say more?”

Holley’s face went ghostly white.

felt as if she

at Kenia and Belinda, her mouth opening and closing, but no

looped in her mind: they

snapped back, she said, “Mom, Belinda, please, let me explain… I had my

clenched, her eyes blazing with fury. “What could possibly justify such

gaze shifted to Holley.

her face drained of color, stammered, “I-I did it

her? By secretly giving her hormones to make her gain weight? What

herself. “I was afraid that if Belinda grew up too beautiful, she would be targeted by men and suffer heartbreak. Mom, you know how cursed my love life has been. When I met Baker, I thought I had found true love. But then, he left me for Carola, making me a mistress. After Belinda was born, I visited a fortune teller who warned that she

was careful, Belinda. I controlled the doses

Lɒtєѕτ chɑρτєrs ιn g𝓪l𝑛ovє𝓁𝓈.𝑐𝓞𝓂

this excuse long before Lamont

knew it wouldn’t

derisive laugh