Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 74: On a bridge near the Jazmín restaurant, tensions were running high.

Melany, please go down first.

We need to talk about this, Colton shouted as he hurried to catch up with her, only to find her perched precariously on the edge of the bridge.

In her white dress, Melany was puffy-eyed and sorrowful, her frail figure swaying on the railing, the roaring river behind her.

a heartbeat away beneath her.

Colton, ever since that perfume contest, I feel like your spark for me has gone out.

You don't trust me anymore.

You forgot about my stomach pain as if it didn't matter.

Melany's complexion was ghostly, as delicate as a butterfly about to fall.

I have never confessed to being a Scarlet Serpent, and I won my championship fairly.

I just wanted to make you proud.

You have any idea how much I've wanted to be Scarlet Serpent.

I just want to support you, even if it's just a little.

I'm always up for it.

Her voice trembled, thick with emotion, as if she were saying her last words.

I became so consumed by Scarlet Snake's perfumes that I became lost in daydreams.

I'm sorry to have caused you to lose that association with the Everett Group.

If she had known that Allison was Scarlet Snake, she would never have made such a silly mistake.

Tears ran down her cheeks as she pretended to wish Colton well.

Jasmine Restaurant, what I

love her,

person I have ever loved

leaned

Colton exclaimed, his

seemed ready to carry her away, and he realized that she had always acted out of

over him like a tidal

don't care about

reason I wanted to partner with the Everett Group is that I hoped to elevate our

everything I do is for you, only for you! But

I do this

five years ago I would have given my life for

got a scar on my back for

pleaded, gripping the railing as desperation etched itself into

not, I'd

to hold Allison's hand, what tormented Melany most

Let's talk about this.

do anything

like it was lodged in

of the

guilt as she recalled the

ago, I

rescue me, I wouldn't

a scar on Melany, a painful reminder

at Colton, filled him with anguish and

he had sworn to protect Melany

or argue about who was

to save him, he would

have doubted you, but leaving you

that, during the years you were away, I clung

shone as

had been desperate, and he could barely remember the urgency of it

only image he had left was of the girl who had led him through dark alleys as they fled for

had trusted was that young woman, a memory he