Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

Chapter 534

The land in the northern suburbs had been seized, and the project was not only at a standstill, but both the Wentworth Group and the Lockwood Group now faced intense scrutiny from government regulators.

In just three days, Northborough had been turned upside down.

The air in the Wentworth family was thick with tension and finger-pointing. One by one, Fred's uncles and relatives descended on him, demanding answers and insisting that he fix the mess he'd created.

It was only now that Fred realized all of this was Stewart's revenge.

No wonder Stewart had walked away so cleanly back then.

He'd laid the trap long ago—just waiting for Fred to stumble right in.

Fury roiled inside Fred, but in the current situation, he was utterly powerless.

What caught Fred completely off guard was that Ferdinand, acting on his own, called a press conference.

At the conference, Ferdinand publicly confirmed that the leaked reports were all true.

"My mother, Malvina, made many mistakes in her life," Ferdinand said, his voice steady but cold, "but the worst was falling in love with my father, Fred."

He went on to reveal, before the entire room of reporters, how Fred had manipulated Malvina's mind for twenty-five years, gradually turning her into nothing more than a human experiment.

truth was that Malvina had not, as Fred claimed, fallen in love with him willingly and wholeheartedly. Back in college, they had indeed been in love, but after Fred cheated on her with Fiona, Malvina broke

Determined to raise her child on her own, she settled overseas. Fate, however, had other plans. Fred happened to be on a business trip abroad when he ran into Malvina again. Learning

just wanted to live

cut ties with the Wentworth family and that,

Ferdinand away, using the boy as leverage to force

small town in the countryside. There, by sheer chance, he met Dr. Calloway-a wise and eccentric old physician-who, recognizing the

home once a year around the holidays, so she and Ferdinand could be together.

When he checked her pulse, he was shocked to discover that her organs were failing and

broke down and

the experimental drugs kept her looking young and healthy, and no obvious side effects emerged. But when the

who insisted he was "working on a

of a solution, it turned out, was to shake

research going. With the drugs

his mother with him, doing everything he could with traditional medicine to

father and

straight to Stewart, demanding

Stewart, of course, refused.

Northborough, Malvina was left to suffer the excruciating side

did everything in his power to heal his mother, but after so many years on the