Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 567:

Kellan’s gaze shifted to the misted window, his reflection mingling with the blurred lights outside.

A long time ago, on a night filled with mystery and fear, he showed up at the Lloyd family’s place, all beaten up and bruised.

“Over ten years ago, I was taken by traffickers. The family didn’t find me until much later — when I somehow made it back to the Lloyd mansion, hurt and half-alive.” He spoke with calm. “When I finally came to, I’d forgotten everything, wiped clean like a slate. Since that day, the dark has never really been just… the dark.”

Allison fell silent. She, too, knew something of that darkness; as a child, she had once endured a similar ordeal. She knew all too well what such a memory could entail. But for him, the pain was still fresh, a scar that had yet to fully heal.

“I’m sorry to hear that,” she said softly.

She met Kellan’s gaze, her voice a bit hoarse. “Oddly enough, I went through something similar ten years ago. I was taken too.”

Clarke, how exactly did you manage to escape?”

shadows, he asked the question almost as if he was trying to find

faint smile. “Mr. Lloyd, the game isn’t over

grin touching his lips. “A

luck or fate,

back with an ease that wasn’t there before, his eyes locking with hers. The moonlight painted his shoulders in a gentle, silvery

again. I want to

embarrassing, actually.” She thought back to that time. “I was blind back then. A boy who called himself Colton carried me

his back and the

“To pay him back, I married into the Stevens family. But he