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.

they had indeed been in love, but after Fred cheated on her with Fiona, Malvina broke things off and left the country

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

do with him—she just wanted to live quietly with Ferdinand. But

showed up unannounced, claiming he'd cut ties with the Wentworth family and that, from now on, he

took Ferdinand away, using the boy as leverage to force

while Ferdinand himself was sent back to a small town in the countryside. There, by sheer chance, he met Dr. Calloway-a wise and eccentric

she and Ferdinand could be together. He told Ferdinand that he and Malvina were working abroad, and

he was shocked to discover that her

her son, Malvina finally broke down and told him

kept her looking young and healthy, and no obvious side effects emerged. But when the funding ran out and the treatments stopped,

confronted Fred, who insisted

turned out, was

if Stewart gave him the funds, he could keep the research going. With the drugs restored, Malvina would supposedly return to her beautiful, healthy

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

a fierce argument between father and son, and

straight to Stewart, demanding

Stewart, of course, refused.

busy hounding Stewart in Northborough, Malvina was left to suffer the excruciating side effects

his power to heal his mother, but after so many years on the drugs, no