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.

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

a sickeningly sweet tone, she scoffed: Miss Clarke,

always says that people are like

are stained, it doesn't matter how much you wash them; the marks never truly go

to Kaelyn, even when she didn't

Kaelyn was a distant relative of Colton's

ago, when Kaelyn had made a mistake that almost brought her into conflict with Stevens family with Kellan Lloyd,

was paralyzed, securing the crucial land

then, Kaelyn had

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

thing: Colton's grandmother's favor had gone astray, and with it, so had

the family's attitude.

eyes fixed on Colton, "it's impossible

a casual

won't

liked those

never

he continued, in a cold,

The air in the room

through a new lens: his

quickly put on an innocent mask, as if slipping into a role she

the Stevens family, Miss Clarke," Kaelyn said, her

And since she's divorced….

the face! Kaelyn didn't have a

her left cheek with such force that the sound echoed

widened

you hit

felt like

If Mrs.

Stevens finds out….

harder this time,

red and swollen,

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

a

welled in Kaelyn's eyes, spilling over as

gone too far!" But before Kaelyn could let out any more complaints, Allison was on top of her again, her hand gripping Kaelyn's throat as

ripped the necklace

the

as Allison grabbed her tighter, drowning her words

you back what I never

It belonged.