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.

excitedly, but deliberately stepped on them, dirtying

tone, she scoffed: Miss

grandmother always says that people are

doesn't matter how much you wash them; the

Kaelyn, even when she

all, Kaelyn was a distant relative

that almost brought her into conflict with Stevens family with Kellan Lloyd, the oldest son of the Lloyd family,

paralyzed,

had felt grateful, almost

now, emboldened by the winds of change within the Stevens family, Kaelyn acted as if she

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

the family's attitude.

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

a casual finality

won't need them

never liked

had never suited

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

in the

seeing her through a new lens:

quickly put on an innocent mask, as if slipping

Clarke," Kaelyn said, her voice tinged with

And since she's divorced….

Kaelyn didn't have a

with such force that

widened in

dare you

I felt like

If Mrs.

Stevens finds out….

slap! Another slap, harder this time, made Kaelyn

now red and swollen, the perfect mirror of each

and, as she fell to the ground, she

in pain, with a face of humiliation and

eyes, spilling

before Kaelyn could let out any more complaints, Allison was on top of her again, her hand gripping Kaelyn's throat as

necklace off her

of the suitcase and the

as Allison grabbed her tighter, drowning her words in

now I'm giving you back what I never gave

It belonged.