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

Chapter 1573:

“Belinda!” Lucas called after her, frustration and worry mingling in his voice. He instinctively took a step to follow, but she spun around and fixed him with a fierce glare. “Don’t even think about following me. We’ll cover more ground if we split up. Go another way and stop wasting time!”

Cornered by her determination, Lucas halted, his brows furrowed in helpless concern. “Be careful,” he said.

“All right!” she replied, waving the flashlight dismissively as she disappeared into the woods.

Lucas didn’t linger. With grim resolve, he turned and began searching in the opposite direction.

Belinda had a hunch about why Faye had ventured into the woods.

Lucas had spoken with Faye earlier that evening, and later, he had recounted the conversation to Belinda.

Something in his words, Belinda suspected, had stirred Faye’s emotions deeply enough to drive her to this desolate, shadow-cloaked place in the dead of night.

her head or to get concern from them

they had to

was, after all,

found many of her actions annoying, she didn’t

her voice echoing faintly through the eerie

it was a realm of shadows and silence. She couldn’t understand how Faye had dared to come

Belinda forged ahead, scanning the underbrush and flickering her flashlight across the gnarled trees and twisted vines, wholly unaware that

reached into her pocket to check her phone, wanting to contact the others. But in that moment of distraction, a sudden, powerful shove struck her

ⱠⒶⵜẸŞ₸ ₡Ḥ₳₱₸ɆⱤŞ ⱻ g𝒶lnovєl𝑠.𝑐ᴏm

Belinda tumbled down a steep slope, her flashlight and phone flying

halt. Her forehead collided with a jagged stone. Everything went dark for

far away,