Mr. Villain's Lovely Wife

Chapter 190

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Izzy’s hands trembled as she slipped the last sheet back into the folder and closed it. The weight of it settled in her lap, but the real weight sat somewhere deeper–lodged in her chest.

She sat there for what felt like hours, unmoving, staring at the now–quiet study. The lamp cast a soft glow over the desk, the floor, her bare feet–but none of it registered.

She didn’t remember standing. Didn’t remember leaving the room. Only that, at some point, she was back in the bedroom, the folder still clutched in her arms like it might vanish if she let go.

She stared at Liam as he lay sound asleep, his breathing steady, the blanket pulled halfway over his chest. Peaceful. Unaware.

She didn’t say a word. Instead, she took a seat on the single armchair near the bed and stared at him, the folder resting against her knees.

She didn’t want to assume the worst. Didn’t want to believe Liam could hide something like this.

But what she’d read… it changed everything.

Her eyes dropped to the file again. Inside were reports–details not just about her grandfather’s death, but also her parents. The crash that had always been labeled an accident. The one she had learned to grieve without question.

Only now… it didn’t look like an accident at all.

In the past, she had asked Lawyer Alcaraz to look deeper into her parents‘ deaths, but the investigation yielded nothing new. She had suspicions, but these are useless in front of facts. It was ruled a car accident just outside of Florence. End of story.

But Liam’s files said otherwise. They included private investigator reports that pointed to possible tampering with the car’s brake system.

Even her grandfather’s death had been accepted as a sudden cardiac arrest.

There had never been any indication that it could be something more–until now.

But why was Liam hiding this information from her? What else was he hiding behind the scenes?

It made her wonder… and think of the worse.

Izzy woke with a dull throb behind her eyes. It took her a second to register where she was. Her fingers brushed against the sheets, soft and cool. She frowned. She didn’t remember getting into bed.

had fallen asleep on the armchair–she was sure of it. But now she was in bed.

longer in her lap. It sat neatly on the bedside table.

threw on a robe, tied it quickly, and grabbed her phone from the nightstand. Without thinking, she dialed his number and rushed out of the bedroom.

line rang once,

heard the familiar ringtone

and turned toward the sound. She didn’t know why, but she honestly thought that

he saw her holding the folder. What was she thinking? Liam isn’t that

of breakfast were already on the table–toast, eggs,

her as she entered. “You’re up.

he’d bring it up first. But instead, he was asking about

in slowly. “You

uncomfortable,” Liam replied, setting her cup down on the counter. “Didn’t

then drifted back to him. “You saw the folder.”

“I did.”

then made

I figured food

respond right away. The casual rhythm of it–the normalcy–only made her

he said as he casually took a bite of the

picked up the spoon and took a bite

right. She needed

speak. Neither did

the only sounds in the kitchen were the soft clink of utensils and the low hum of the refrigerator.

for the soup,” Liam said, wiping his mouth with

straight back to the night before. The moment she found him nearly slumped against Mondo. The way he’d barely made it to bed. The weight of his body. His silence. And

her spoon down gently. “Was it because of your

hand stilled over the rim of

And she felt it. Felt him searching her face like he already knew the thoughts circling in her head.

heavier now, as if something was finally being acknowledged

how he still had this

was,” he answered after what felt like forever. “We

know that you married