Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 2: Mrs.

Clarke, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to! Kaelyn hurried down the stairs, looking extremely worried.

Maybe I can put everything in a bag for now, she added, hiding her disdain behind a sweet smile.

Kaelyn had always looked down on Allison, considering her nothing more than a poor country girl who had shamelessly fallen for Colton for a better life.

Colton frowned in frustration.

How clumsy you are, he snapped, looking at the scattered clothes.

Allison's suitcase contained very few clothes and hardly any jewelry.

She hadn't even spent much of the money he had given her over the years.

She lived simply, frugally, and it was a reflection of how she had never tried to take advantage of her status.

But love could not be forced or faked.

Melany's baggage takes priority.

Put Allison's things in a storage bag, Colton added dismissively, looking at the broken suitcase.

"I'll have the housekeeper buy you a new morning.

" Allison gave a small, bitter smile.

That suitcase was the one I stole from the kidnappers when we were fleeing to save ourselves.

If it hadn't been for her, we would have drowned then.

For years, she had cared for that suitcase, just as she had cared for her marriage.

And now, like their relationship, it was destroyed.

Colton let out a cold laugh.

That story may fool my grandfather, but it doesn't work on me.

His memory of being kidnapped as a child was too vague, and he always doubted that Allison had been with him during that time.

Turning to Kaelyn, Colton raised his voice.

Hurry up and collect your things! Yes, sir.

to pick up Allison's clothes excitedly, but deliberately stepped on them, dirtying

a sickeningly sweet tone, she scoffed:

that

it doesn't matter how much you wash them; the marks never

to Kaelyn, even when she didn't have to

all, Kaelyn was a distant relative of

with Kellan Lloyd, the oldest son of the Lloyd family, it

who was paralyzed,

Kaelyn had felt grateful, almost

now, emboldened by the winds of change within the Stevens family, Kaelyn

down to one thing: Colton's grandmother's favor had

the family's attitude.

Allison said, her eyes fixed on Colton, "it's impossible to get them

shrugged, a casual

won't need them

never liked

had never

he continued, in a cold, unfamiliar voice, "they have to

in the

looked at Allison as if seeing her through a new lens: his usual softness had been replaced by a cutting

put on an

the Stevens family, Miss Clarke,"

And since she's divorced….

Kaelyn didn't have a

with such force that

eyes widened in

dare you hit

felt like

If Mrs.

Stevens finds out….

this time,

and swollen, the perfect mirror of

and, as she fell

screamed in pain, with a face of humiliation and

eyes, spilling over as

you've gone too far!" But before Kaelyn could let out any more complaints, Allison was on

ripped the necklace off

of the suitcase

flushed as Allison grabbed her tighter,

now I'm giving you back what