Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 457:

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Her gaze flickered briefly to his shoulder, where a bandage peeked out from beneath his shirt. “Besides, you’re not even fully healed.”

Her words settled in the space between them, a stillness that seemed to sink deep into Kellan’s chest.

His face clouded, a shadow of realization washing over him. She wasn’t just holding him back; she was pulling away.

Allison lifted her hand in a casual wave that said everything she wouldn’t. “Well, goodbye, Kellan.”

Without looking back, she stepped away, her silhouette fading into the dusk. For a moment, her reflection lingered in the rearview mirror, and then she was gone.

escaping his lips. “What’s wrong

his pocket, flicking

been months since he’d last smoked, but tonight the burn felt right — a small distraction from the cold ache

watching the ember glow. It only made him feel

the cigarette pulsed like an open wound, the heat searing yet adding to the

and

cigarette against the ashtray with a final drag and

snapped stems from the flower bed, his mind clearly elsewhere. When Allison’s call interrupted

like you read my mind — I was just thinking about you, and here you are!” Standing by the expansive floor-to-ceiling window in his

his face quickly faded as Allison’s

back in Cobweb, Gordon. We’ve uncovered something big about my mother. I’ll send you the information as soon as I finish compiling it,” she said, her fingers flying over her keyboard as her