Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 491:

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What on earth was so important that it required a café meeting? Was it about romance? Love, perhaps?

Either way, the thought twisted like a knife in his chest, tightening as though his heart were caught in an iron vice.

Seeing the tension building, Gordon’s expression sharpened, and his eyes glinted with a smirk. “Well, Mr. Lloyd, you did meet Miss Perry at a café, didn’t you? So it seems there’s no reason for anyone to be shocked that Allison and I might do the same.”

Gordon tilted his head, his gaze flicking to Carole before he sighed mockingly. “Too bad she doesn’t hold a candle to Allison. She’s coarse, to put it politely. Surprising, isn’t it, Mr. Lloyd? That this is your taste?”

From the start, Gordon had no intention of playing nice. The moment he saw Carole purposefully blocking his path, he’d marked her as trouble.

And her incessant jabs at Allison only made his distaste for her deepen.

added, “Truly, some people are rotten

into

him insult her in front of Kellan. “Mr. Herbert, I won’t claim to match

for Kellan with a hint

all, this was her chance to win his favor, regardless of what it might cost her to go against the Herbert family. “You’re going

as ever,

address me like that?” Gordon’s gaze swept over Carole, looking at

“You…!”

face turned beet red with fury. She prided herself on her beauty; no one had

she had to swallow her anger, as Gordon’s status

Kellan didn’t move to

Clarke, aren’t you going to intervene?” Carole’s voice turned pleading, her gaze fixed on Allison with a hurt expression. “You seem close with Mr. Herbert. Surely, he’d listen