Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 386:

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“Do you really think I could’ve called you when I was unconscious for days?” His tone was unmistakable, laced with sarcasm. “You claim you were worried, but you only called me once.”

Hoyt’s smile was icy, filled with contempt.

Melany stayed silent, inwardly fuming at how absurd he was being.

She had only said what she thought he wanted to hear, but this idiot actually believed she meant it.

She fought the urge to roll her eyes but instead put on an innocent, vulnerable expression. “Hoyt, you’ve misunderstood. Colton’s been keeping tabs on me. He checks my phone constantly,” Melany murmured, sniffling for effect. “I had to sneak out just to call you from the Underground. Don’t forget, I’m still committed to our plan.”

Hoyt’s eyes narrowed, suspicious. “Has Kellan shown up yet?”

the event, their

everything, especially the accident that had left him in this pitiful state. Kellan was like a curse, always leaving disaster in

helmets, masks, disguises everywhere. Finding Kellan in this crowd is

her. It was chaotic, and though it would be

to resist going after the prize.” Thinking of his

word echoed in Hoyt’s

father

bomb in the prize. It’s set to go off after a certain time. No one can

on the idea that Kellan

if Kellan did lose, it wouldn’t matter, as he

Hoyt to go this far,

if someone else ends up

just have to consider themselves unlucky,” Hoyt responded coldly, his voice devoid of

car accident had left him paralyzed, and now his father dismissed him as a useless man, while his mother ridiculed