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.

had indeed been in love, but after Fred cheated on her with Fiona,

moving abroad, Malvina discovered she was pregnant. Determined to raise her child on her own, she settled overseas. Fate, however, had other plans.

to live quietly

cut ties with the Wentworth family and that, from now on, he wanted nothing but to

refused. So Fred did the unthinkable: he took Ferdinand away, using the boy as leverage

in, while Ferdinand himself was sent back to a small town in the countryside. There, by sheer chance, he

bring Malvina home once a year around the holidays, so she and Ferdinand could be together. He told Ferdinand that he and Malvina were working abroad, and

years ago, Ferdinand noticed that his mother looked pale and unwell. When he checked her pulse, he was shocked to discover that her organs

son, Malvina finally broke

experimental drugs kept her looking young and healthy, and no obvious side

Fred, who insisted he was "working on a

idea of a solution, it turned out, was to

the funds, he could keep the research going. With the

He insisted on keeping his mother with him, doing everything he could with traditional medicine

a fierce argument between father and son,

Stewart,

Stewart, of course, refused.

Stewart in Northborough, Malvina was left to

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