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.

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

discovered she was pregnant. 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 that she had a son,

to do with him—she just wanted to live quietly with Ferdinand. But Fred wouldn't let

the Wentworth family and that, from now on, he wanted nothing but to be with Malvina and

Fred did the unthinkable: he took Ferdinand away, using the boy as

sake, Malvina gave in, 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 old physician-who, recognizing the boy's natural

could be together. He told Ferdinand that he and Malvina were working abroad, and as a child, Ferdinand never

her pulse, he was shocked to discover that her organs were failing and her body was suffering

Malvina finally broke

Ferdinand learned that, all these years, Fred had treated Malvina like a lab rat. For years, the experimental drugs kept her looking young and healthy, and no obvious side effects emerged. But when the funding ran out and the treatments stopped, Malvina's body began

Fred, who insisted

turned out, was to shake

keep the research going. With the drugs restored, Malvina would supposedly return to her

thought Fred had lost his mind. He insisted on keeping his mother with him, doing everything he

a fierce argument between father and son, and Fred

Stewart, demanding three

Stewart, of course, refused.

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

in his power to heal his mother, but after so