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.

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

any specific part of Vrining it might have come from?” she asked, doing her best to hold back the wave of emotions swirling

mother was still alive, and all she could do now was steady herself and take each step forward

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

tone darkened, his eyes locking with hers as he leaned

a lno v els .com is packed with

human trafficking has spiked there. They even say disturbing experiments are going on,

slipped, and her teacup toppled over with a clatter, spilling tea across

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

“Sorry about that.”

yourself.” Roderick grabbed some napkins to help

“I’ll clean it up.”

through her as she clutched her fingers, trying to steady