Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 623:

As they disappeared, Allison let out a small, amused sigh. “Looks like our date is getting cut a bit short, Mr. Lloyd.”

The sun had begun its descent, casting a soft amber glow across the horizon. Its fading light softened the lines of her face, lending her an almost ethereal quality that took Kellan’s breath away.

He tightened his hold on her hand.

“Not at all. We still have the stars to look forward to tonight.”

He paused, and they lingered in silence as the twilight wrapped around them, casting their shadows long across the ground until they merged into one.

Allison glanced up, brushing a loose strand of hair behind her ear.

“Alright,” she murmured. “The stars at Sunset Hill are beautiful.”

gaze alight with quiet joy, her

seemed rather… unbothered by what just happened.” Allison’s tone was light, almost

a warm, honeyed glow, stretching

calm, his voice steady. “Allison, I’m not here to pry into what you don’t want to

is where

his dark gaze held hers, steady and unyielding, as if silently challenging her. She felt the

not exactly a secret,” she said, her voice

trees and twilight. To one side, the soft glow of fading light illuminated the mountains, while on the other, dusk had already

Allison, a labyrinth of complications she rarely ventured into. “I was… an orphan, actually.

quiet, measured, yet every word

in Ashajathe, and I almost didn’t make it out. But my teacher was there. He took down the boss himself, claiming that four-hundred-million-dollar reward. He gave it to me on my birthday. Told me it

years had been dark—a tightrope walk between life and death. She was an orphan who had become the Scarlet Snake, the finest assassin