Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 640:

Colton, visibly shaken from his time in Muisvedo, staggered slightly under her sudden embrace.

“I’m…fine,” he muttered.

“Thank God! You don’t know how worried I’ve been,” she said, her red-rimmed eyes fixed on his face. But beneath the surface, her concern was shallow; the tears were more for effect than for empathy. Colton didn’t notice—or perhaps didn’t care. His gaze drifted, eyes clouded as his thoughts sank into the darkness he’d endured these past days.

“Did… did Allison agree to let me go?” he finally asked, his voice strained.

He had never thought the ex-wife he had previously hated would show such a wild and captivating side. He seemed to have lost himself entirely in his own thoughts as well; it wasn’t only Melany.

shirt with a mix of frustration and hurt. “Colton,

register her

his mind somewhere else entirely, likely still reeling from the

down a wave of jealousy, putting on an innocent, wounded

should have… challenged her like that. But I didn’t realize she hated me enough to make even Lindy fall ill with worry,” Melany remarked, wiping her eyes, her voice clogged with emotion,

furrowed as he looked at her. “What… what

at him pitifully. “A few days ago, Lindy and I… we went to see Allison. We knelt in front of her, Colton. Both of us, begging her to show

whole truth, instead letting selective details settle in

Lindy into the water.” Colton stared in disbelief, his eyes finally catching the faint swelling on Melany’s cheeks, still

my mom?”

the verge of tears. “She’s in bed, completely drained from all the stress. It’s really bad, Colton. It’s not Allison’s fault… It’s mine. I shouldn’t have married into your family and upset her like I did. If I hadn’t, your mom wouldn’t be in this state.” She leaned into the pity act, hoping it would shift the focus away from her involvement