The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

"What did you just say?"

Yasmine arched an eyebrow, her fierce gaze making the housemaid shrink away instantly.

Victoria had been standing in place for ten whole minutes, her beautiful eyes fixed on the winding staircase ahead, her heart feeling utterly hollow.

At last, she found her voice, though it was little more than a hoarse whisper.

"Yasmine, let's go."

It was time. She didn't belong here, nor anywhere that had McNeil in it.

They were finished-had been for a long time.

A sleek black town car sat abandoned in the driveway.

Victoria passed by it without so much as a glance.

Anything that belonged to McNeil, she wanted nothing to do with. If Violet wanted it, she could have it.

Yasmine flagged down a cab for her. Victoria sat alone in the back seat, gazing out the window as the city slipped by.

turn green again, wildflowers would bloom, and the mountains would be shrouded in gentle morning mist. Lovers would find secluded corners of the world to whisper their secrets, far from the noise

that all she'd ever wanted-peace and quiet, a life shared with someone she loved, away from

there was simply

sudden ring of her phone pulled Victoria back to reality. Dr. Kelvin's name lit

phone to her

someone else. His condition isn't improving, and at his

man was giving up

that even

silence, then suddenly, a name

Violet.

old man wasn't handing over his chance...

Dr. Kelvin's voice cut through

here. I'll go to the hospital

through traffic as Victoria's

corridors smelled as always-sterile

man had just woken up, and for once, he seemed to be in

for the surgery," Victoria said

he couldn't

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