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.

and added, “Truly, some people are

trying to fade into the

him insult her in front of Kellan. “Mr. Herbert, I won’t claim to match Ms. Clarke’s beauty, and you’re welcome to critique me all you like. But Kellan? That’s where

up for Kellan with a

of what it might cost

as ever, while Gordon only

like that?” Gordon’s gaze swept over Carole, looking at her as if she were beneath notice,

“You…!”

red with fury. She prided herself on her beauty; no one

her anger,

of all, Kellan didn’t move

voice turned pleading, her gaze fixed on Allison with a hurt expression. “You seem