Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 214: Devins eyes were bloodshot, veins protruding in thin red lines.

Yet his voice remained eerily calmtoo controlled for someone teetering on the edge.

Dont worry, Miss Johnson.

All I want is a hundred thousand in cash.

Im sure thats not a problem for someone like you.

Of course, what he really desired was a face-to-face meeting.

Meet me at the third alley off 1st Avenue.

Youve got three hours.

If you dont show up with the money, dont blame me for sending the recordings to Allison and the others.

Melanys face twisted in fury, her knuckles whitening as she gripped her phone.

Are you out of your mind? A hundred thousand in cash? How can you But before she could finish her sentence, the line went dead.

With a hiss of frustration, Melany threw the phone down and began pacing.

I shouldve known better than to get involved with that madman! she muttered angrily.

But this wasnt the time for regrets.

She had to get those recordings back.

If they ended up in Allisons or, worse, Kellans hands… no, she couldnt risk it.

If Colton or Lindy found out about her shady dealings with Devin, shed be out of the Stevens family without a second thought.

Determined, Melany quickly moved to gather the cash.

After packing the money into a heavy suitcase, she donned dark sunglasses and a hat, and headed to the alleyone devoid of security cameraswhere she was to meet Devin.

When she spotted the short, stocky figure of the man, her face twisted with disgust.

she snapped, shoving the suitcase toward

Give me the recordings.

get out of

Her jaw tightened.

Pathetic loser.

Greedy leech.

this hundred thousand, and

and try to blackmail me again,

widened as he took slow, deliberate steps

loomed over the

take the money and disappear? His voice was

Easy enough.

the

agreeable, but his mind was working a different

really thought

but the second his back was

after the mess at

Melany wouldnt get a chance to make

closer, stopping just

cloth soaked in chloroform clamped over Melanys mouth

Thats what people like you think you are, right? he murmured, his voice low and

how you handle something worse

anticipated

fingers desperately clawing

She couldnt scream.

She couldnt fight.

blurred,

thought echoed in her mind: she was

the world around her

abandoned factory loomed ominously, and Devins

Panic surged within her.

needed to play her cards

Ive kept every promise I made to you, she pleaded, her voice thick with

Its Allisons fault.