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.

she were struck by

and Belinda, her mouth opening and closing, but no words

looped in her mind: they knew! They knew

snapped back, she said, “Mom, Belinda, please, let

fury. “What could possibly

to Holley. She

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

bad joke. “Protect her? By secretly giving her hormones to make her gain weight?

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 would inherit my doomed romantic fate. So… I did that to shield

She looked at Belinda. “Even with the hormone injections, I was careful, Belinda. I controlled the doses to only cause weight gain, never to

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excuse long before Lamont had

she knew

low, derisive laugh