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

really love her, I

are the only person I have ever loved and I sincerely wish for

leaned even

Colton

her away, and he realized that she had

over him like a tidal

care

Everett Group is that I hoped to elevate our company and

for you, only for you! But

do this for you

five years ago I would have given my

beauty, I even got a scar on

doubt me, Melany pleaded, gripping the railing as desperation etched itself into

not, I'd

Colton had overlooked his stomach ache in the restaurant to hold Allison's hand, what tormented Melany

Let's talk about this.

do

heart felt like it

Melany still teetering on the edge of the bridge,

as she recalled the incident that had

I

you hadn't come to rescue me, I wouldn't

scar on Melany, a painful reminder of her love for

at Colton, filled him with

on, he had sworn to protect Melany at all

no longer dared blame her or argue about who was right and

hadn't risked her life to save him, he would have been lost for a long

have doubted you, but leaving you was never an

that, during the years you were away, I

eyes shone as

been desperate, and he could barely remember

he had left was of the girl who had led him through dark

of death, the only person he had trusted was