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.

Restaurant, what I said

her, I can step

ever loved and I sincerely

that, Melany leaned

come down first! Colton exclaimed, his

realized that she had always acted out of

him like

care about

partner with the Everett Group is that I hoped to elevate our company and impress your

for you!

do this

would have given

a scar on

the railing

not, I'd

in the restaurant to hold Allison's hand, what tormented Melany most was whether she could ever fully regain his

Let's talk about this.

don't do anything

like it was lodged

the bridge, every slight movement grated

as she recalled the incident that had

I almost

come to rescue me, I wouldn't

scar on Melany,

Colton, filled him

on, he had sworn to

dared blame her or argue about who was

save him, he would have been lost for a

doubted you, but

that, during the years you were away,

shone

desperate, and he could barely remember the urgency of

girl who had led him through dark alleys as

had trusted was that young woman, a memory