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.

some

who had been trying to fade into the background,

won’t claim to

up for Kellan with a

this was her chance to win his favor, regardless of what it might cost her to go against

impassive as ever, while Gordon only

like that?” Gordon’s gaze swept over Carole, looking at her as if she were beneath notice, his smile venomous. “Tsk! Hideous,

“You…!”

prided herself on her beauty;

had to swallow her anger, as

of all, Kellan didn’t move to

pleading, her gaze fixed on Allison with a hurt expression. “You seem close with Mr. Herbert. Surely, he’d listen