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.

any proof Let's see if you're so bold when you get slapped with a letter from

lot of nonsense in her life, but to

visibly bristling at Melany's accusations, clenched his fists, his face flushed

protect someone who doesn't deserve

would accept them

to

was strange to see Mack

met this girl by

the contest, I gave her a lower score than

the regulations, the judges must not know anything about the

she approached me, eager

Snake for her incessant

once-in-a-lifetime talents that just needed a little push to fully

and when he saw Allison…This year's game had been exciting, but who could have predicted that a minor incident would turn

words struck a chord

of his stature would not risk his reputation with a lie, especially when there were other,

both sides adamant, the audience wavered, caught between

anger before turning to

you were dragged into this because

on Melany with an intensity that

fact that your perfume is not a tribute, it is a blatant

conveniently, I

her

That's impossible.

.

.

gaze made her instinctively

have been her imagination, but for the first time,