Secrets Of The Neglected Wife: When Her True Colors Shine

Chapter 700:

Verruckt followed her gaze to her clothes, which indeed bore the marks of dark coffee stains.

Jareth let out a sigh of relief, his tension ebbing as he asked, “You said you broke the microwave?”

“Yes,” Allison replied, biting her lip. She pointed to the coffee machine, her face flushing with embarrassment. “I didn’t know how to use it, but I wanted hot coffee. So I put the can in the microwave, and then… it exploded.”

Jareth rubbed his temples, frustration evident in his voice. “Shouldn’t you have been at your workstation on the second basement level? Why were you in the break room on the first basement level?”

Allison looked at him, her eyes wide and pleading. “Mr. Williamson, you said there were creepy lab specimens on the second basement level. You told me I could stay on the first level when Mr. Shaw wasn’t around.”

chaos of everything that

You can check the footage. You told me this morning, right in front of the elevator. I’m

security personnel began to move out,

indeed what I said. But… that’s because Alice knows about the central control room on the second basement level, and I was worried—”

Have someone check the surveillance footage of the break room

“Yes, sir.”

crawl down his spine. The punishment seemed

gaze again, his eyes narrowing as they lingered on the wound etched across Allison’s arm. It seemed plausible enough

in the break room?” he asked, his voice cutting through the silence like the blade of