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.”

did you manage to escape?” Kellan’s brows furrowed, genuine

left the orphanage, she ended up stranded on an isolated island. Partially hidden in the shadows, he asked the question almost as if he was trying to find an answer for himself. After all, no one had ever figured out how he’d managed to break free from the traffickers

“Mr. Lloyd, the game

sly grin touching his lips. “A promise is

round of their game began without delay. Whether by luck or

for me, Ms. Clarke,” he said, leaning back with an ease that wasn’t

choose truth again. I want to know how you

escaped Allison as she cast her eyes downward. “It’s a little embarrassing, actually.” She thought back to that time. “I was blind back then. A boy who called himself Colton carried me to

and the feeling of every step he took as they fled were as vivid as if it

gaze shifted toward the window, lost in thought. “To pay him back, I married