Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 451:

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The hidden tools he’d stashed away suddenly made sense to her, as if they had been waiting for this very moment — to make this aloof and detached man surrender, to bend the unyielding.

Allison pushed the wild thoughts aside, a wry smile playing on her lips.

“You sure have a talent for jokes, don’t you?”

With a soft chuckle, she eased the tension in the air, just as a young worker hurried over, breaking the moment with perfect timing.

“Ms. Clarke,” he said, slightly out of breath, “Mr. Astley would like to see you both in his office. He mentioned there’s something important he wants to discuss.”

couldn’t have

struggled to respond to Kellan’s intense gaze.

let’s go,” she said, regaining her composure as

office, Roderick’s admiration for Allison grew, though he paid

personal collection pieces. Feel free to take anything you

gold filigree lantern earrings, a long, auspicious hairpin… And that vase over there.” He swept his

carefully lifted a beautifully carved

have a fondness for jade. This one is over four hundred years old, an ancient and rare

to part with anything, not just out of gratitude, but because he genuinely

will die out. If you’d stay here as a lecturer, I promise you could become the dean of the entire academy. I mean it.” His eyes held an intensity that spoke volumes about his desire to pass

her gaze wander over the shimmering pieces,

him. “Roderick, I’m honored, but I can’t