Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 62: A chuckle ran through the room.

No one knew who started it, but soon all eyes turned to Melany, blinking with a mixture of disdain and amusement.

This time he failed! Someone whispered with a mocking smile.

How many lies does he think he can get away with? First he says he's Scarlet Snake, then he says it was just a tribute.

Now, he even suggests that Scarlet Serpent was his mentor.

Exactly! Who knows how long she's been fooling people, pretending to be someone she's not.

Shameless, absolutely shameless.

Melany opened her mouth, searching for an explanation, but the words stuck in her throat.

There was no way out.

Instinctively, her hand reached for Colton's arm for support, but he stepped back, his face reflecting disbelief and disappointment.

Colton's heart sank.

It was as if he were seeing Melany for the first time, a stranger with the face of someone he had trusted.

In his memories, she had always been kind, gentle, and understanding.

He had been by her side, defending her from everyone, believing in her without a doubt.

But now, all that confidence seemed like a lie.

What hurt him even more was the revelation that Allison had been the real Scarlet Serpent all along.

The truth hit him like a punch in the gut, more painful than it had ever been.

imagined.

With her eyes filled with tears, Melany whispered: Colton, please, let me explain.

.

.

But how was I going to do it? Even she was tangled in the web of his deception, too far away to untangle.

Now.

to many, and now they were

any defense she

she couldn't stay there,

save something, if not his reputation,

to his knees

Scarlet Snake," he declared,

as if she were the

it inspired

no idea Allison was Scarlet

very sorry for

be a victim

was never my intention to

only entered the contest to

meant any harm or

softened, his defenses weakening once

not your fault, he murmured, almost as if

the woman I shared a bed with for three years, was a brilliant

couldn't know

much like an

had to be

she had been hiding her identity all these years,

continued, his voice filled with cold resolution, what Melany

kept her identity a secret, none of this would have gotten out

a venomous look

I offer

the crowd instinctively recoiled,

Colton's audacity, even now, trying to buy

the most elegant solution, but with the contest results finalized and Melany securing third

could still become

going to let her

buy the

even the loudest

with a

serious You think you can just wave some money around and fix

.

.

touch it with two million, much less two hundred thousand, Kellan

her voice