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.

but

tone, she scoffed:

always says that

doesn't matter how much you wash them; the

kind to Kaelyn, even when she didn't have

all, Kaelyn was a distant relative of Colton's

with Kellan Lloyd,

Kellan, who was paralyzed, securing the crucial land for the Stevens'

had felt grateful, almost

by the winds of change within the Stevens family, Kaelyn acted as if she had never bowed the

one thing: Colton's grandmother's favor had gone astray, and

the family's attitude.

right, Allison said, her eyes fixed on Colton, "it's impossible

a casual finality in her

won't need them

he'd never liked those

had never suited

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

air in

seeing her through a new lens: his

felt the change, but she quickly put on an innocent mask, as if

serve the Stevens family, Miss Clarke," Kaelyn

And since she's divorced….

the face! Kaelyn didn't

struck her left cheek with such

eyes widened in

you hit

I felt like

If Mrs.

Stevens finds out….

this time, made

were now red and swollen, the perfect mirror of

second blow caused Kaelyn to lose her balance and, as she fell

screamed in pain, with a face of

welled in Kaelyn's eyes, spilling over as

too far!" But before Kaelyn could let out any more complaints, Allison

the necklace

of the suitcase and

Allison grabbed her tighter, drowning her

you back

It belonged.