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.

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

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

wanted nothing to do with him—she just wanted to live quietly

ties with the Wentworth family and that, from now

Ferdinand away, using the boy as leverage to

in the countryside. There, by sheer chance, he met Dr.

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

he checked her pulse, he was shocked to

broke down and told him the

years, Fred had treated Malvina like a lab rat. For years, the experimental drugs kept her looking young and healthy,

Ferdinand confronted Fred, who insisted he was

solution, it turned out, was to shake

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

mother with him, doing everything he could

fierce argument between father

went straight to Stewart, demanding

Stewart, of course, refused.

Stewart in Northborough, Malvina was left to

everything in his power to heal his mother, but after so many years on the drugs, no remedy came quickly