Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 59:The audience was deep in thought, especially the contestants who had not been classified.

Murmurs spread as doubt began to take hold.

Maybe the contest wasn't as fair as they thought.

Melany is right.

Scarlet Snake came out of nowhere years ago, making waves in the perfume world.

How could someone who has been away for so long be just a young woman, one person murmured.

After losing that year, I did everything I could to locate the finalists.

I hired private investigators, spent a fortune, and still found nothing.

The first contest wasn't supposed to be confidential.

How could a judge recognize a contestant unless there was a violation of the rules or, worse yet, intentional cheating.

added another voice.

It was moments like this that revealed the darker side of human nature.

It was easier for them to believe in conspiracies in a supposedly rigid and fair competition than to admit their own shortcomings.

Melany knew exactly how to stoke those feelings, how to twist people's insecurities.

And now, Allison was caught in the middle, tainted by association, facing hostility no matter what she did.

Especially since she had no hard evidence to clear her name.

Rebecca, upon hearing these unfounded accusations, threw her wine glass on the floor, breaking it into pieces.

so bold when you get

audacity? Rebecca had seen a lot of nonsense in

him, Mack, visibly bristling at Melany's accusations, clenched his fists, his

to protect someone who doesn't deserve

has talent, I would accept them as a

to question my

was strange to see Mack so

met this girl

gave her a lower

the regulations, the judges must

she approached me, eager to

for her incessant curiosity and

one of those rare once-in-a-lifetime talents that just needed a

game had been exciting,

a chord

reputation with a lie, especially when there were other, more honorable ways to guide

sides adamant, the audience

gently calmed Rebecca's anger before turning to Mack, offering him

sorry, sir, that you were dragged into this because of

gaze fixed on Melany with an intensity that

or not does not change the fact that

conveniently, I

her

That's impossible.

.

.

gaze made

imagination, but for the