Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 453:

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After all these years, here was a fragment of her mother’s past, the very clue she’d been longing to find. She was finally one step closer to the truth, closer to uncovering what had happened all those years ago.

Allison’s remark left Roderick slightly stunned. He hadn’t expected to stumble upon the truth by pure chance.

“I’ve done some digging. This piece traces back to Vrining,” he began, giving her a brief rundown of what he knew.

“During the black-market exchange, the seller was peculiar. He looked foreign and kept his distance, as if he wanted to disappear.”

Allison’s brows knitted together at his words.

Vrining was an enormous country, so she knew that finding useful information based on just an earring was like trying to fish a needle out of the ocean.

eyed the earring in her hand, noticing a dark speck— a faint, dried

have come from?” she asked, doing her best to hold back the wave of emotions swirling inside

even know whether her mother was still alive, and all she could do now was steady herself and take each step

a beat. “I’ve got a few contacts in the black market, and they say Fleeingland is infamous, a stretch of no-man’s land in Vrining’s western region where almost no one dares

his eyes locking with hers as he

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They even say disturbing experiments are going on, making the place a nightmare in

shocked. Her hand slipped, and her teacup toppled over with

past behind her, ignoring the troubles in Vrining, thinking that part of her life was closed. But now she realized just how treacherous certain parts of the world still were. She quickly started wiping up the

“Sorry about that.”

yourself.” Roderick grabbed some

“I’ll clean it up.”

as she clutched her fingers, trying to steady