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.

what I said

her, I can

person I have ever loved

Melany leaned even further

down first! Colton exclaimed, his anxiety

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

over him like

care

Group is that I hoped to

for you!

I do this for

years ago I would have given my life

a scar on

pleaded, gripping the railing as desperation etched itself into

not, I'd rather

the restaurant to hold Allison's hand, what tormented Melany most was whether

Let's talk about this.

do anything

it was lodged in

of the bridge, every slight

with guilt as she recalled the incident that

I

to rescue me, I wouldn't be

moment also left a scar on Melany, a painful reminder

filled him

on, he had sworn to protect Melany

argue about who was right and who was

her life to save him, he

you, but leaving you was never

years you were away, I clung to your memory

eyes shone as

his situation had been desperate, and he could barely remember the

who had led him through dark alleys as

brink of death, the only person he had trusted was that young woman,